MANAGING STRESS IN OUR LIVES

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Monday
Mar282022

WE SHALL ALL, IN THE END, BE LED TO WHERE "WE BELONG. WE SHALL ALL, IN THE END, FIND OUR WAY HOME"

The above is from The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo. It is a book about faith in oneself [Beatryce in herself] and this allows you to trust and have faith in others to help you. It is about being brave [doing what we know is right] so that we do not turn away from what is right for us to do and brave to go forward and brave to love ourselves and others. So, knowing and believing in ourselves leads to trust in ourselves and others, and this leads to having faith in others and this leads to love. Kate DiCamillo in talking about her books says that it is our job to love the world. So, this clarifies that "this leads to love" written above, means to love the world. 

Is this possible? Yes, it is. Will this help us to not worry and to not hate others but actually care about them? Yes, it will. Is it that simple? Yes, it is. It appears that it is up to us to choose to know ourselves and take responsibility of ourselves. No one can be responsible for us, it is actually impossible. However, it is fairly easy to delegate responsibility for ourselves to others. It would seem that we do this because it temporarily reduces our anxiety about the future and yet it make it certain that we will continue to be anxious. Anxiety will not stop anxiety and no one else can make us happy.

So, is it really up to us? Yes, it is. So, what does this have to do with the quote noted in the title to this blog? Maybe it means that since it is impossible to delegate responsibility for ourselves to others, we will all choose to know ourselves and this will then lead us to where we belong and to home.