The last few days and weeks have been difficult¹ and I realized that I haven’t really spoken about one of the self-derived axioms I live my life by.

I find the Serenity Prayer to be a wonderful distillation of hope and self-love at one-end, and pragmatism and rationality on the other. The original prayer (like a lot of good philosophy) was derived from worship and devotion, but I prefer a less religious version:

Let me have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,?

the courage to change the things I can,

and the wisdom to know the difference.

1. A few things happened that I can’t speak about yet. ↩︎