Youth Is a Song, the Years a Poem

I have a headstrong, willful disciple, an overbearing and unreasonable sister-in-law, a sister with a questionable IQ, a deskmate who has failed to lose weight, and a bunch of eccentric friends. I put up with my disciple, can only shake my head at my sister-in-law, do as my sister says, try to understand my deskmate, and go along with whatever my friends want.