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#wisdom

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱

A young friend said he wanted to get a plant: if he could care for that, then maybe he could take care of a cat.

ME: a cat is much easier than a plant. A plant will go and die on you, but a cat will not let you sleep if any of their needs (real or imagined) have been left unfulfilled.
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Mason Loring Bliss

(This was a reply, but I also want it to be a post in it's own right, as I feel it's important. Expanded slightly.)

The Serenity Prayer is like a law of nature. If something is beyond your ability to change, you waste energy trying, and miss opportunities to change what you can. Hence the third part, "the wisdom to know the difference."

Can I myself make the Zionists stop? No. Can I engage some of them personally and try to shift them? Yes. Can I force my government to stop sending money and weapons to Israel? Can I stop ICE? Can I restart USAID? Can I get everyone to trust vaccines and restore science funding? Can I end racist government policies? NO to all of them. Can I influence my elected reps and encourage others to start speaking out? YES. And sometimes the things we need to consider, whether we can change them or not, are inside ourselves, our thought processes and reactions.

The Serenity Prayer is part of a toolkit to avoid debilitating depression and enable action in the face of things that overwhelm us. While much of the toolkit is couched in monotheistic religious language, the moving parts function quite nicely regardless.

And remember: Maybe what you can and cannot change shifts as time passes. It's a tool you continuously re-apply.

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

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