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The primary cause of unhappiness...

Is never the situation itself...but perhaps your thoughts about it?
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Sometimes it [b]IS[/b] the situation itself.
Pambi · 26-30, F
@bijouxbroussard The situation happens.

You...

Decide how it will affect your life
@Pambi True, ultimately. But it doesn't mean the situation hasn't caused unhappiness.
Pambi · 26-30, F
@bijouxbroussard The situation...

Happened.

It caused nothing.

It has no intent.

Your... Our... Thoughts make it so.
@Pambi Well, you don't know the situation. Why or intent is irrelevant. It caused me to be a widow and childless. I don't know anyone else who could've taken that and chosen to see it as a positive thing. And yes, I've had decades to make some kind of peace with that [b]situation[/b]. But yes, it was the situation itself.
Pambi · 26-30, F
@bijouxbroussard I have faith that you will find peace someday.

Situations...no matter how horrible, create space in our lives.

How we choose to fill them then becomes a situation WE can control.

I too have experienced great loss and I speak not from mere words... But from my heart.