"Besieged on all fronts" (or "besieged on all sides") is a common military and metaphorical phrase describing a situation where a group, nation, or character is attacked, pressured, or threatened from every possible direction at the same time. That's how I feel right now. Looking after my dad, keeping the rats there at bay, etc. On Wednesday I was called into my boss's office yet again. I didn't do anything wrong but my tone was probably a bit wrong. People complain nowadays for anything. What next? People complaining to police that they can't drive a car without a driving license? It's the age of people who think that they have privileges. Not even rights, but privileges. I'm really losing heart and mind here.
For the shortcomings of others, see that as their problem, right there, the problems are reduced, it's very frustrating, but when you see how there's nothing you can do short of forcing them to think properly, which would then be unethical, one then has freed up space in their mind spaces to confront to problems we can do something about, which I believe can be approached most ideally when a calm is ruling the thoughts, and inner being. I speak of what I rarely experience though, the Calm is a realm I see as a believer would see Heaven, an Ideal place to be. And then perhaps one may see the irrating things as distant and unreachable, you are surrounded by idiots, but it's like they can't reach you, and air itself is identical to Irony, but experienced as Poetry, Poetry which classically disagrees most beautifully with Rationalism.
