Sometimes our role in life isn’t to judge something – it is to figure out how to fall in love with it, especially when it becomes part of our new reality.
The other day, I was in a conversation where someone was describing their new commute. The question that came up was, “Do you like it?” And of course, the natural instinct is to evaluate it: I don’t like this part, I don’t like that part, etc.
But if that commute is now your daily reality, what’s the point of judging it?
The only useful response is: “I’m figuring out how to fall in love with it.”
Because once something becomes part of your life – a commute, a schedule, a constraint – complaining about it doesn’t change anything. What helps is learning how to make it useful, meaningful, or even enjoyable.
It’s the same principle as complaining about gravity. It is futile.
Accepting your new reality is the first step to agency.
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