RE: Dealing with situations

This morning I got a nice message from Rishi on Fedi and from there browsed his blog a bit. Within minutes I had stumbled upon a very interesting post about “Dealing with situations”. As usual, I already have the same vague understanding, but it’s always nice to see my own thoughts put succinctly into words. There are three ways to deal with any situation — accept, change, or remove. Accept what you can’t change. Change what you can’t accept. When neither of those two work, remove yourself from the situation. I’ve lived by this (first subconsciously and then consciously) since my late teens. But…what happens when you suddenly no longer have access to the full set of actions? I’ve written about this before, but I don’t think I ever managed to drill down to the core problem by myself. Or if I did, I don’t think I managed to find the right words to convey what I mean. The above quote makes it easy. Imagine being used to accept, change or remove and then suddenly losing access to remove…

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