The Intrusion Of Confusion

So much of life is about disappointment. It’s about unmet expectations, shattered dreams, plans that go awry, hopes and expectations that are never realised.

Importantly, though, it’s about what to do when confronted by the reality that is the result of situation and circumstance rather than imagination and fantasy.

While truth is not only stranger than fiction it can be ignored. We always have the choice to accept what it is or convince ourselves that it is what it is not.

We can work to make sense of the confusion we encounter or choose to add to that confusion.

Inevitably though we are required to live in the real world. Those who refuse open the door to emotional instability and with that instability comes pain.

We don’t always get what we want. Nor have we any right or justification to expect to. But it is always possible to take what we have been given and make it better.

Life is very much what we make of it. At the heart of that is acceptance of the things that are beyond our control coupled with a conviction to improve those things within our sphere of influence.

We all face constraints and limitations. But when those constraints and limitations are self-imposed it makes sense to question them.

Questions demand answers and, more often than not, they are clear-cut. But not every answer is the one we want to hear or accept. While  it’s sometimes possible to mould an answer into one which we find more palatable it takes more than sheer will to make a absolute wrong into an adequate right. Self-deception fuels stress.

We can choose to make disappointment our default reaction to life or we can decide to accentuate the positive.

It’s the ultimate individual responsibility that determines our quality of life.