Things Don't Have to Make Sense
Photo by Jeremy Perkins
Sometimes things happen and we don't fully comprehend why. We tend to make sense of it by attributing to a variety of possible factors: divine intervention, coincidence, (bad) luck, statistical (im)probability, or some other cause. There's so much that we don't know about everything, and that's a scary thing to accept for the mind.
But what if we could just accept things as they come? No rationalizing, no making sense of it,
just full acceptance.
The Stoics did this. The Taoists do this. The Buddhists do this. Even Western religion teaches to place full surrender in the hands of God.
Surely it's a lot easier to just live life riding the wave instead of spending your whole life analyzing it and figuring out why there's a wave to begin with.
So just try to live with an attitude of acceptance. When something comes across your path, just say "it's here. I'll deal with it accordingly and move on." No more resisting and obsessing over why it's there and why it had to happen to you.
