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The Question Is, How Will This Impact Me, If At All?
Before you get swept up in the happenings of the world, ask this question.
It’s super easy to get caught up in the happenings of the world around us.
If you spend even the slightest amount of time on social media, you’ll be drawn into the world outside, beyond your life. Sometimes you’re only drawn as far as the circumstances and drama of your friends, family, coworkers, and other connections. Other times, you are drawn further out, into national and international events and happenings. Furthest out of all, there are times you get drawn into concerns over climate change, resources drying up, and the like.
These can all seem immense, surreal, and hugely impactful to and for you and your life. However, more often than not, they aren’t. That’s because most of the above things have little to nothing to do with you.
Hence the question. How will this impact me, if at all? The thing we all too easily forget is that what we truly control in our lives is exclusively within us.
All those happenings we experience, both near and far, are not within us. Hence, their impact is often going to be a lot less than we imagine it will be.
