- Change it if you can. If you can’t, just forget it and move on. More time is wasted on gnashing teeth and wringing hands over immutable situations and circumstances than on appreciating what we have. Wisdom is acknowledging the status quo when it’s written in stone, even when we don’t like it; ignorance is fighting that status quo tooth-and-nail even when it becomes clear an outcome has been preordained. Smart people accept essential truths; fatuous people never seem capable of understanding them and thus wind up ceaselessly waging battles they have no chance of winning.
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