Frisse Kip schreef op 8 juni 2017 16:58:
Gelukkig kan ik er om lachen, vaak zelfs hartelijk. En iedere verandering maakt vaak meer gulle lach los.
Ik heb sinds de moeilijke tijd die nu hopelijk achter me ligt een grote verandering ondergaan. Ik heb mij gewend tot het stoicismse. Werkelijk, een aanrader. Serenity NOW!
Even een tweetal citaten nu iedereen ademloos toekijkt hoe Comey trump bemoddert zodat we daarna weer kunnen overgaan tot net doen of er nooit iets gebeurt:
Serenity therefore begins with pessimism. We must learn to disappoint ourselves at leisure before the world ever has a chance to slap us by surprise at a time of its own choosing. The angry must learn to check their fury via a systematic, patient surrender of their more fervent hopes. They need to be carefully inducted to the darkest realities of life, to the stupidities of others, to the ineluctable failings of technology, to the necessary flaws of infrastructure. They should start each day with a short yet thorough premeditation on the many humiliations and insults to which the coming hours risk subsequently subjecting them.
One of the goals of civilisation is to instruct us in how to be sad rather than angry. Sadness may not sound very appealing. But it carries - in this context - a huge advantage. It is what allows us to detach our emotional energies from fruitless fury around things that (however bad) we cannot change and that are the fault of no-one in particular and - after a period of mourning - to refocus our efforts in places where our few remaining legitimate hopes and expectations have a realistic chance of success.