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Fate is not you. You are you. External factors do not determine how you feel at any given moment. You do. Your judgment of the event does.
Buddha said life is flux. What will happen will happen. You must go with the flow, as there simply is no other alternative. To wish and hope for something different, something better is ludicrous as it is impossible to change what is.
The day you can ignore all emotions without it affecting you or changing your behaviour or thoughts in any way is the day you have reached nirvana, a peace infinitely more gratifying than happiness.
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Avoid all emotions. Feel them if you must, however never let them get behind the wheel and take control of how you live.
