How often do you find yourself fighting against reality?

Maybe fighting is too strong of a word.

How about annoyed, frustrated, irritated, or just struggling with?

If never, then congratulations, you’re probably more emotionally evolved then most people around you.

However, if you’re like the majority of individuals then you must find yourself at times angry, upset, or irritated at situations that are beyond your control.

Traffic or flight delays, weather, business or political decisions made by those that are beyond your influence are examples of reality that is beyond your control. And yet, like you, countless numbers of individuals find themselves fighting against these realities on a daily basis.

So let me ask this.

How many times has your frustration with reality been able to change reality?

I would venture to guess probably never. Unless of course, you have a reality changing superpower that you’re hiding from the rest of the world.

But maybe you do have a reality changing superpower.

Maybe it’s not what’s going on in reality, but how you view reality that can help you better deal with it.

What if you’re dealing with one of the aforementioned situations where you really don’t have any control, and instead of defaulting to your normal settings of anger or frustration, you view it as a micro-test of your self-control?

As you continue to take these micro-tests your muscle of dealing with reality will get stronger, until eventually the majority of things that used to bother will, as they say, roll of you like water on a duck’s back.

Wouldn’t that be nice?

Or, of course, there’s always the choice to continue to fight against reality. The wonderful thing is that ultimately you get to choose how you spend your energy.

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