There are days when it is a struggle. Listening to the news and reading social media can make it very difficult to just remain calm. That’s the mental state I strive for anyway, not sure what others are doing. I just want to remain calm.

I don’t want to control others, just control my response to others. That’s the struggle. I do chuckle about that when I see the advertisements for mental health. Pharmaceuticals and Therapists! No, I don’t need either one of those. The first just masks the problems, and the second simply offers sympathy.

I guess it is really more of a frustration than a struggle though. I do get frustrated with those that simply will not accept reality. There really are constants in life, things that do not, and will not change. We can apply labels to them, disparage and condemn, but they don’t change.

What frustrates me is the constant complaining about those things. There will always be those that have more than you, no matter what. At times it is perception more than a reality. It happens when you allow others to establish your truth. Truth exists when you believe it!

I learned that as a child. Mostly I learned it after being talked into something! The lesson became clear after mom or dad said, you know better than that! It stung because you knew that was the truth, you did know better. You had been taken for a ride!

The frustration isn’t that I can’t do anything about it, but rather so many fail to accept the reality. How can so many get talked into such a bunch of nonsense? There are only two genders, guns aren’t violent, terminating a life isn’t a choice, and the only universal thing in health care is, you will die.

Your rights were succinctly stated with these words: ” life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” Everything else depends upon circumstance. Circumstance can even deny you of those rights! Now, that’s a simple truth. Consequence is dependent upon circumstance. You can’t control either one. The best you can do is live with them.