Cant' See The Forest For The Trees

This English sentence is from an English test at high school.

"Whale is no more mammal than snake is mammal."

What on earth is the matter with the teacher who made this test?
It doesn't give even a definite article.
No wonder my English didn't improve at school.

Resolution For This Year

There are only TWO months left this year.
I feel like I celebrated the new year for 2016 just two months ago.

What's going on ?!

As I get older, time runs on faster year after year.
I have not made my new year's resolution yet so I made it now.
I will study my specialty hard and won't waster more of my time!
It doesn't seem difficult to stick to my resolution. :)

How To Not Be Affected By Something Bad

I'm relatively a positive person and usually pretty good at
not being influenced by people's bad behaviour,
but when I get slight series of misfortunes,
which are not serious such as continuous lack of sleep or bad health and so on,
I tend to take others' bad moods in a bad way.
Do you know what I mean?
It has probably been a long time habit of mine to absorb emotions/moods of those around me.

How would you keep your mind calm after when you accidentally
meet disagreeable or moody people or just something bad?

First, I thought the best way is to get me busy not to give the time myself
to think something like this, but this doesn't seem to work, and I may be more tired.
I need some time to practice not to take others' mood.