(September 21, 2021 at 3:03 pm)Astreja Wrote: Wishful thinking may feel better, but it's vaporware.
(September 21, 2021 at 3:14 pm)Ahriman Wrote: If you only had one life to live, then wishful thinking would be the logically correct choice.
As someone who succumbed to a lot of wishful thinking earlier in my life, I strongly disagree. The nature of wishful thinking is to hope for something we want, even when the prospects of actually getting it are very bad. That mindset kept me broke, anxious, overworked and chronically disappointed when my mental wish list regularly got slapped silly by real-life facts.
The moment I say to myself "This situation sucks, and it's not getting any better," other, more rational paths start to open up. I can't stress this enough: In order to develop real value in your life, you have to be able to see things as they are and to work with what you have -- even the bad stuff -- otherwise, you're working with tools and materials that aren't really there, and you'll probably fail to achieve your goals.
