Serenity to Accept Things We Cannot Change

Accepting Things We Cannot Change

Reflecting on a famous quotation by Reinhold Niebuhr:

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change…”

Some things just are. I’m talking about things we simply cannot change. If we spend days of our lives endlessly trying to change them, we only get frustrated, hurt and disillusioned.

We wish we have a big house and a happy home. We wish we have lots of money so we don’t need to worry about our piling up monthly bills to pay. We wish we have 10 booksellers to our credit. A lot more wishes...

Well, we just happen to be who we are.

We can only try to do the best we can. But when we sit around whingeing and whining about what we don’t have and compare ourselves with others, we find ourselves dragged on into an unhealthy and sometimes destructive mode.

Difficult as it may, we have to do something about it, then our circumstances may still cease to be burdens, with knowledge and acceptance that we have no power to change, rather, accept as facts of life we need to put up with.

Do we move on beyond anything we cannot change?