The Serenity Prayer

Thursday the 12th of June 2025. I'm currently looking at this well-known prayer called the serenity prayer and it goes something along the lines of this God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know

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the difference. Now this is kind of like a reflection on control, right? And you know I'm very big on control because it really does like affect my mental health,

my physical health, my emotional health, because it's all interconnected. And, you know, without rambling on, like, you know, I've slowly come to the conclusion that, you know, there is a magnitude of things that I have tried to control in an effort to kind of like, you know, maintain or gain my own serenity.

But a lot of the things that I actually can control have got nothing to do with the outside world. And they've got, you know, it's got a lot to do with everything, you know, with the inside world. And what do I mean when I talk about the inside world? Well, the mind, as much as it is so invisible to the human eye,

as much as it's kind of like very abstract in its existence, it's very, very, very, it has this very fascinating, phenomenal, and unfathomable kind of like connection and relationship with the real world. It is something that in essence doesn't exist,

but it's very, very vast and it's very, very huge and it has a massive impact on our reality and how we see things. And I feel like that is one of the most important things, one of the very, very few things that we as human beings can control and should control. Once we're able to control that or manage or maintain that,

then we tend to find serenity far quicker and far more consistently than trying to find serenity by kind of like having you know certain parameters in place within our real world because the matter of you know the truth of the matter is this the parameters in the real world they will always change you know imagine if our serenity and happiness was linked to a certain

setting for example we're only serene when it's sunny or only serene when the house is clean or we're only serene when you's sunny or we're only serene when the house is clean or we're only serene when you know there's money in our bank account that means that every single other opportunity when you know every single other instance when those settings are not in place we are not serene and you know unfortunately we can't control those parameters as well as we can control our own mind so this is me saying effectively like, you know, really and truthfully, like, I do wish for myself,

you know, to have the wisdom to control, you know, what I should control, you know, what I can control and what will grant me that serenity, as opposed to trying to create conditions within this real world, which can't be constant forever as like the only thing that is constant in this life is change and you know I just wish you know I wish I strongly wish and hope for you know that

wisdom you know to kind of like you know know the difference between what I can change or what I can't change and also having the courage to effectively change that which I can.