Worry won't make you smarter

 “The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is,” Kurt Vonnegut observed in discussing Hamlet during his influential lecture on the shapes of stories. “The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad,” Alan Watts wrote...

At the present (June 2022) there is a deluge of bad things happening, the consequences of which will hopefully play in favor of mankind  Change is painful, usually unwanted and surely not welcomed by most, especially when it conscripts love ones to untimely outcomes  Loss is loss  Life is living with those we love  Division in thought and action can change the face of a nation when the self serving are doggedly persistent  Some struggle while others look on with abandon or disbelief at what is life

 "The great first-century Roman philosopher Seneca examined it, and its only real antidote, with uncommon insight in his correspondence with his friend Lucilius Junior, later published as Letters from a Stoic"

 

quoted source  www.themarginalian.org