Eventually one becomes numbed to setbacks and dire circumstances.
I think this can split people again. Numb so one continues on regardless, or numb so one just puts up with the status quo as if nothing can ever change.
The acceptance path that many take is that "there is nothing I can do", which I disagree strongly with, otherwise nothing would ever change and history has shown it does, but maybe not in the ways we might want. Wanting isn't doing though.
The best that we can do is to grab the opportunities that present themselves to our hard work and to always hope for success!
Yes.
Here are the two rules that I live by my friend.
"Find out how much God has given you, take from it what you need; the remainder is needed by others" Saint Augustine of Hippo.
"For whatever you wish others to do to you, do also to them" Known as The Golden Rule (Biblical)
Now I am no saint, instead one of the worst sinners, but these two rules keep me on track.
Did you know that pretty much all major religions have this rule in a very similar form? What is interesting is that it probably has appeared in communities since communities formed, as without it, most would have collapsed.
Yep! It was also a favorite in the Byzantine and Babylon eras and I think that it has saved many lives over the ages.