I have to get busy, but I'll leave this: Are you more "Life as it is" or "Life as it should be"? I want epic introspective insight only please!

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I really don't consider my train of thought either of those but maybe a mix of the two. I try to accept the things that I know I can't change and move past those things so as not to frustrate myself with futile efforts to make a change that can't happen with my feeble hands. I do not think there is a "life as it should be". As there are too many ways for people to live. There is nothing that really should or shouldn't be. There are things that I want and things that I don't want but that is all subjective to each person's thoughts and preferences.

As for me, I am learning to accept the thing I can't change and figuring out a way to make my life the way I want it to be. I'm trying to make my life be the way I think it should be.

I've seen that maybe most of my life I have been living life as it has been handed to me and that kinda makes me sick among other things. It's hard to change when my body has gotten so used to this uncomfortable life.

I guess to end all of that I'll just say I am not yet the person I want to be.

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@TURTLEGOD Thank you. I appreciate the time and thought you put into your answer. As you can see, I'm not exactly Mr Popular here, but the friends I have are true, and I can't ask for more than that. The serenity prayer and the desiderata have both been a major influence for me. Realism and fatalism with a cushion of optimism! I am a chronic kingdom sheriff .......I try to control it, but my heart screams for my perceived justice, and I pound my figurative drum, and wave my figurative banner!