- You can’t decide how people feel; you cannot crawl inside another person’s head; you cannot control his/her emotions like you would a kite in the sky or a dog on a leash or a puppet tethered to strings. You can vaingloriously attempt to guide people’s actions with silky words and earnest prompting and boorish posturing, but that is as far as one can go. In the end, each individual will decide how they feel about anything and everything and obviously that is their God-given right. So just learn to live with this stark reality in lieu of no viable options. The person in question may be irredeemable and an insufferable moron, but such is the way God fashioned them. I’m not claiming, like many others do, that there is some sort of transcendent reason behind this state of affairs and that there is an inscrutable reason for everything that happens on Earth, both bad and good, but such is life and we only exercise absolute control over our own puny being and—in deference to cosmic fate—even that is a preposterous overstatement disproven every second of every day all around the world . If someone insists on behaving like a stooge or a boor or a cult devotee, that is their prerogative and, analogous to fatuously attempting to defy gravity time and time again, there really isn’t anything one can do to alter a predetermined course of nature.
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