A favorite author
of mine, William Faulkner (1897-1962) wrote: “Let us not believe that man can
only endure: he can also win”. Resignation, in fact, is not exactly a virtue
when it makes you feel a victim. This belief programs you for failure because –
by assuming you have been unfairly treated by fate – you justify your inaction,
your immobility towards any possible progress, either material or spiritual.
What you really need is, instead, the active acceptance that provides you with
the serenity necessary to get ready for action. You were born to win, not to
passively suffer without reacting. Modern society, while on one hand pushes
people towards competition in order to prove that they are “better”, on the
other hand it pushes them towards a total mistrust in themselves (so that they
conform in order to fit in). The two sad sides of the same coin!
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