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Why do you think you need to be "okay" with life being unfair? People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it, people who weren't okay with dying
by alan_wade 8y ago
Why do you think you need to be "okay" with life being unfair?
People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it, people who weren't okay with dying of smallpox found a way to cure it, and made life a little fairer. And there were a bunch of people who weren't okay with things but couldn't do anything about it, so they didn't.
Some things are unfair for no reason and there's nothing we can do about them, and it's not okay.
You don't have to warp your mind with convoluted philosophy to become okay with things and "accept" life as it is. Life can be awesome and beautiful, life can be shitty and painful. These things don't cancel each other out. You can enjoy awesome things, you can hate and be angry at bad things. You and me and everyone we love will die some day - there's nothing that can make it okay. And yet sunsets are still beautiful and ice cream still tastes good.
You don't have be okay with bad things, you can hate/resent/fear them and still enjoy the good things at the same time. These two are not mutually exclusive. Fix what you can fix, endure and persevere through things that you can't(because you have no choice), find as much joy as you can in the good things.
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Also read "Obstacle is the Way" by Ryan Holiday - extremely well writen summary of stoic philosophy, I'm sure you will find it very useful and interesting.
- brogrammer2018 8y ago> People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it Ummm fact is slavery has not ended yet. Not sure what you mean?
- justbaker 8y ago> People who thought slavery wasn't fair found a way to end it There are more slaves now than ever and most of them are children. How is that ended?