If you have the ability to improve the situation then you don't need to worry, but OTOH there's no need to worry if you don't, either. "Contentedness" is a sta

If you have the ability to improve the situation then you don't need to worry, but OTOH there's no need to worry if you don't, either. "Contentedness" is a state you can choose to be in. You can recognise horrible events but you don't have to be unhappy over it. I feel like thinking about how "the reality" is pretty good to convince yourself to feel better isn't the way to go. What if things aren't going well? What if there's war everywhere, does that means you must then be unhappy, that you can't be content? Stake yourself not on fantasy, dreams, goals, people or events, but as it is. You still can have those things but having or not having them doesn't need to affect you.