Wouldn't it be nice if we kept score on a blackboard? Everything be wrote down on it - or friends, acquaintances, problems, opportunities. Maybe use some colored chalk every once in a while so we could segregate issues at a glance and we could just wipe clean certain things, move others where they make more sense.
If we just wrote things down rather than taking them in our heart so go seething in our blood through our body. Chalk wipes clean. Blood stains.