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Your Reaction To Any Given Situation is Your Choice
Maybe not initially, but after that it is.
Like it or not, shit happens. And there isn’t a damned thing you can do about it.
When shit happens, you’ll react to it. This always comes in three stages.
The first stage is your visceral, immediate, automated reaction. What that will look like is situational, dependent on factors including what, where, how, why, and when, and often unpredictable. This can include immediate rage, anger, frustration, joy, surprise, excitement, or interesting combinations of multiple of these. The first reaction just is, simply happens, and that’s that.
The second stage is immediately after that reflexive reaction. The shit has gone done, you reacted to it, and now you decide if that reaction is how you proceed, or if you will shunt it away and choose something else, or some combination therein, and what that looks like for you. This is where instinctual negative reactions turn into anger, fear, sorrow, and the like, and continue to keep you on a negative approach (or possibly excitement, elation, surprise, and the like, and continue to keep you on a positive approach).
Whatever it is, following that first stage of the initial automated reaction, you choose the next. Continue in negativity or seek…
