Re Jordan Peterson's quotation
Sep. 25th, 2024 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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"Deal with it or let it grow. Those are your options."
Deal with what exactly? I am beset by lots of "it"s. There are many things menacing me. Once in a while one or another of them has to be dealt with urgently, and so I find a solution. But mostly I just let them be, while proceeding to work on something important and quietly hoping that things will resolve themselves with the passage of time. Either the proverbial donkey dies, or the Shah dies, or I die. I cannot possibly deal with every stupid thing every time while remaining productive with the creative endeavors I am working on. Yes, this growing problem may eventually kill me. But something will eventually kill me, no matter what I do. The aim is to accomplish something meaningful while I am still alive.
"Deal with it or let it grow. Those are your options."
Deal with what exactly? I am beset by lots of "it"s. There are many things menacing me. Once in a while one or another of them has to be dealt with urgently, and so I find a solution. But mostly I just let them be, while proceeding to work on something important and quietly hoping that things will resolve themselves with the passage of time. Either the proverbial donkey dies, or the Shah dies, or I die. I cannot possibly deal with every stupid thing every time while remaining productive with the creative endeavors I am working on. Yes, this growing problem may eventually kill me. But something will eventually kill me, no matter what I do. The aim is to accomplish something meaningful while I am still alive.
