"When we cannot change a situation, resolution comes through the way we choose to handle it within ourselves"
Gerald Coffee

Gerald Coffee would know about this. He was shot down while flying combat missions over North Vietnam, and spent much of his 7 years as a POW in solitary confinement. When faced with a situation like that, the only way to emotionally survive is to choose to see our situation differently. Fortunately most of us won't have to deal with anything like that, but there are always little things in our own lives that we just can't change so we need to learn how to deal with them.

There is always a choice of how to view any situation. You can try to analyze how it happened and feel worse about it. You can hope that somehow things will change soon and feel better about it. You can search for something good about it, or you can dwell on how bad it is.
You can even turn the problem into an exciting challenge. For example, if it is an exceptionally cold winter, you could complain about the cold or you could challenge yourself to find a way to stay warm.

Most of us have a tendency to focus on the negative aspects of whatever situation we find ourselves in. We do an amazing amount of blaming and complaining. Yes, sometimes there is nothing we can actively do to change the situation. But blaming and complaining only makes the situation worse. We must choose how we are going to deal with the situation mentally and emotionally. Resolution comes through the way we choose to handle it within ourselves.

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