Fault and Change by Carlos Miceli
I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of all the things that are not working in your life. That job you don’t like, that relationship that’s not working, those friends that annoy you. Now turn them all on you. Imagine that everything that’s not working in your life, is your fault. How would you approach it? What would you work on to change your life to the state that you want it to be?
(Author: Carlos Miceli)
Fault and Change by Andrew Cairns
Buddhists might say you need to detach yourself from desires - material, physical, emotional; Christians might say, you should think more of your neighbour, turn the other cheek; Jews might say do good deeds. As a Muslim, while I would agree with all of these approaches, I think that any change in your life should be guided by reflection on the passages of the Qur'an, the Hadiths, prayer for guidance, consulting your religious community / family, and doing what feels right in your heart.
I notice a lot of the prompts in this series run along a similar vein of what you want to be, what goals you have in life, how you want your life to be; and then proposing some kind of rather simple / naive self-help method of achieving what you want. While that can be interesting or useful; sometimes you just have to accept in life that despite all your best efforts and striving, you do not actually have control over everything or everyone and you have to humbly submit to reality, to destiny, to events outside of your control.
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