Your Circumstances Don't Care
It's easy to get mad at your adverse circumstances. Chances are, they deserve it. That trying situation you are going through? It probably needs to be called out and vilified for being so awful. And that bad thing that happened to you... You have my permission to let off some steam by calling it every name in the book. But you need to realize something as you are railing away at the unwanted circumstances, situations and awful things that have happened to you: They could care less. I read this amazing quote from the ancient Roman playwright Euripides today. He wrote, "You shouldn't give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don't care at all." It doesn't matter how mad you get, frustrated, or full of despair--circumstances aren't concerned about your feelings. They are not people that can respond to your frustration, and no amount of anger is going to change that fact. I struggle with t...