On 2018-07-28 21:10:52 If Only said:
I read the following on a lady's profile some time ago...the impact thereof is quite profound!
"She does whatever it takes to make it through one more day.
She is not a sinner or a saint.
She is a woman, a warrior, with the soul of a survivor and a heart that is in search of peace and love."
On 2018-07-28 21:21:33 Tegwane said:
On 2018-07-28 21:10:52 If Only said: I read the following on a lady's profile some time ago...the impact thereof is quite profound!
"She does whatever it takes to make it through one more day.
She is not a sinner or a saint.
She is a woman, a warrior, with the soul of a survivor and a heart that is in search of peace and love."
Sorry, but could that not apply for a man?
On 2018-07-29 07:11:03 dickshaft said:
There is a philosophy, in Stoicism, that holds that we should only ever bother ourselves with issues we have control over. This is similar to the Christian Prayer of Serenity. If we care about things we have no control over, then we lose control to those things.
The idea is that, there are things in the world we have control over and things we don't. Where we do have control, we must strive to always do our best and we shouldn't ever bother ourselves with things we could never do something about in the first place; like other people's opinions.
I struggled with this concept at first as we tend to be brought up with the belief that "we can be anything we set our minds on" when that isn't really true.
What we can do, though, is always strive to be the best that we can be. We should understand that doing so places one under a spotlight where people (in whose nature it is to often criticize) can say or do the craziest things to us. These things we should never take personally, nor take responsibility for as it is in THEIR nature to do so, we shouldn't even hold grudges against them as they are just giving into their nature. All you can do is keep trying your best, with the understanding that we aren't owed success by anyone but we are better for trying and not waiting for things to get better by themselves.
The trick then becomes growing the wisdom to understand the difference between what we control and what we don't.
On 2018-07-29 14:26:05 john_adams said:
"they always come back" is nonsense anyway , there are plenty of women who leave the business and don't come back