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user-inactivated  ·  3429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How to become a resilient, hard-working person?

    Things always take care of themselves, they did before you were born and they will after you die, but that doesn't mean they resolve in a way that's best for you.

Perhaps. Isn't the point of work - any work - to bring order into the chaos, however? All we do, we do to construct our lives in the way we see most fitting. To say that things ought to move in their own way is to deny the worth of the work that could be done against it. I'm not to say that we must be most controlling of every aspect of our lives - indeed, bad things will happen regardless, probably more often when we're worried - but leaving yourself solely on reaction seems like a victimization of yourself.

Yes, you could concentrate on one part of your life and accept whatever happens in others, but would that still be the life you want to have? Isn't the whole point of doing stuff to bring to oneself what you want most?