it gives us plenty of chances to practice. I’m a tragic optimist so I decided in high school the only approach that made sense to me was,
Play your part well and let go of the results.
Easier said than done, of course, but I’ve been working on it. Yesterday was encouraging…after all these years I may be starting to get the hang of it.
Are you working on anything? If so, how is it going?
March 15, 2022
Letting go of the results isn’t always easy. Even if the results are good, we tend to bask in the success of our efforts.
I always seem to have some kind of project going. Right now I’ve had a project sitting on the dining room table for about a week that I just can’t seem to get back to.
In the fullness of time… when the mood strikes it will be there for you.
This “life” thing is sometimes difficult. I’m reading a book that I highly recommend – Humankind by Rutger Bregman – something positive and food for thought. A friend lent me the book – I like this friend!
I will look the book up. 🙂
I can tell you that positive people positively make me want to scream. I even stopped following one blogger because I could not stand the everything is rainbows. I want to thank you for the new to me words of tragic optimism. I found this article by searching these new words and I love what is says.
thanks for pushing me to look up things , signin off as paranoid slightly tragic optimist. LOL
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210302-tragic-optimism-the-antidote-to-toxic-positivity
I’m glad the term resonates with you too. 🙂
I live by these words…”100 years from now, it’ll make no difference”. Of course that’s for ME….not the world as a whole. I try not to fret over mistakes I’ve made or those things accomplished, but live for the day.
I think of it in terms of the world as a whole. A lot of the current petty politics won’t even be mentioned.
How I love your first line!
‘Still working to stay afloat in this sea of uncertainty. There’s much I want to do — but at the same time, there’s nothing I need (to do). Does that make sense?
It makes sense to me…I have a Possibility List, not a To Do list. 🙂
A lot of days I just work on surviving…Sandra had sent me the article. I guess I am a tragic optimist…with a little something else thrown in. I am constantly trying to work on my attitude…
And sewing the bits of fabric together is a sort of therapy for me.
Hobbies/projects are so important for our mental health. 🙂
my mother once told me (I was just a child then) that I would be happier in life if I just learned Patience! 🙂
and here I am… 76 years old and still learning to be patient. with myself and others. who knew it would become a lifetime endeavor? still. practice makes perfect they say. I’ll keep practicing. no signs of perfection yet. LOL!
😀 Good luck!
it depends….
🙂