That Chink In Our Armor

That Chink In Our Armor

WHEN THINGS FALL APART, WHAT happens next?  YES That is WHEN those chinks In our armor will surface out and become visible [seriously, even to the blind, deaf and mute].  BUT as we often heard, the wisdom of learning from failure is incontrovertible.  NOW for some hard facts.  On average, most of us will spend [roughly] one third of our lives at work.  That translates to approximately 90,000 hours whew!  So, it's just inevitable that each of us wlll go through difficult periods within that cycle📗📙📘

Surely, our life can be peppered with setbacks and sometimes we get hit with it back-to-back.  WHETHER it's a fallout with a family member, a tongue-lashing from your boss, a relationship breakup, a business foray going awry OR even the death of a loved one.  There will moments WHEN even world events break our hearts, LIKE 9/11, LIKE the Ukraine war, LIKE the murders targeting Asian women in New York.  In 2022, Collins Dictionary named 'PERMACRISIS' as the word of the year as that year, it embodied the dizzying sense of lurching from one unexpected event to another💧💧💧

With wars and conflicts from Gaza in the Middle East all the way to the South China Sea conflicts, YES we can be forgiven for feeling that much of our lives are seemingly out of control.  And YES, we humans do hate that feeling out of control.  Just the very existence of the term 'control freak' indicates our need for control can go too far😌😌😌

Studies by psychologists have proven that we humans want to feel  that we're steering our own respective ships, that deep-seated desire for CERTAINTY + CONTROL.  These studies went farther and the results showed that having that SENSE OF AUTONOMY is the number one contributor to HAPPINESS and that we shouldn't be surprised that so many measures of our mental health are heading the wrong way???

Our takeaway:  NOT referring to any of those studies, WHILE we may NOT always be able to control events, we certainly can control our reaction to them and that can be a world of difference for us to achieve that HAPPINESS that can last much longer than it is now.  YES, we can fix that CHINK IN OUR ARMOR❗❗❗