Remember just two things – deal with stuff that belongs to you,

and check if that stuff is really true

In a tsunami of emotion consider letting go of extra baggage – especially let go of what doesn’t belong to you, or what you cannot change. Reduce matters to what can be managed.

Do not spend too much of today on yesterday: the Past – already happened and unchangeable.

Nor spend too much of today on tomorrow: the Future – still beyond your reach. It’s wise to prepare, but worry and anxiety won’t shape what may never come.

Then there’s Nature’s Lane – disasters that seem to loom, yet lie outside your control.
And Others’ Lane – their thoughts, their choices, their business. Not yours to steer.

So what remains? The Present — the only place where real choices can be made.
And here, you are not powerless.
Whether you act, or wait, or simply pause – let truth, as you understand it, be your compass.
Even the smallest truth can be an anchor when the world feels adrift.

And that may be enough. You don’t have to fix everything. Seek truth, just take one small step. Take the present.

“… hope is the rope tied fast to truth,

not always clear when we choose a lie.

Truth holds the heart when tides run wild,

so why be the storm when you are the sky? “

“… sort the facts from the fiction, and pause a moment before you act …”

this short video suggests that to start with, the immediate action you can take is in the Present,

and in that action be as truthful as you can

A renowned animation artist has said “Think not about yourself, but about the medium you were blessed to be born into” – what seems a disadvantage, may be seen instead as a circumstance that can be changed – where there is no road, you can create one.

This view of animation (“giving life to art”) may also apply to Life itself. “You have to understand that everything you were cursed with, you were also blessed with. Change the circumstance, because the truest thing you can do as a human being is to make sure that the next person who comes along has a different world to face. And that’s it.”

time unfolds as change – hope seeks the change that helps