Mountains Out of Molehills

     Why are people so determined to make mountains out of molehills?  I don't know if we are all guilty of it but I know I have been on occasion.  Looking back, I feel like such an idiot for worrying about a minor detail that meant nothing in the grand scheme of things.  What I don't understand is why some people look at something that has been around for ages and say to themselves, "I think that's offensive.  I'm going to lobby the government to do something about it."
     What I am referring to is a group of women in Canada who want to change the lyrics to O Canada from "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command" thereby making it more gender neutral.  I have read comments on this subject through social media and while I understand that O Canada has had some minor lyric changes in the past why should this be changed just because a group of women decided to complain about it.  Do these women represent the majority of Canadian women?  I have serious doubts about it since there has never been a huge public outcry or protests over it.
     I feel that there are much larger issues facing women than the lyrics to O Canada.  There are women who are struggling to feed and house themselves and their families.  There are women who have suffered horrible abuse from those who should have loved them.  There are women in this world denied an education simply because they are women.  And there are those who are not even given the chance to draw breath let alone grow to become women because they are aborted in favor of male children.
      Why can't the women who are so concerned with something so minor focus their energy and influence towards these issues?  I am so disappointed to find that in a world full of bigger issues they have chosen something so petty and are trying to get the Canadian government to focus on it too when there are far more pressing matters that need to be addressed.  To these women I say: Quit wasting your time and find a real issue to worry about.
     I am tired of petty little molehills being turned into insurmountable mountains.  There are enough mountains in this world that we must conquer.  Leave the molehills to the moles and try to make the world a better place, especially for those women who have been given an Everest to climb.