Give Peace (Of Mind) A Chance

 


     Everyone will reach a point in their life when they will want nothing but some peace of mind. They will stop overthinking, or stressing, worrying or analyzing, questioning or protesting things or getting tangled in a pointless and thoroughly extended drama. They will start to accept wholeheartedly cruel things they can’t change or those beyond their control, and will start to be forgiving and much more understanding.

    Their friend is defending a corrupt politician; they’d not get into an acerbic argument with this friend, they’d just agree to disagree, leave the conversation and water their plants.

    They have a lover who wants to leave them and shack up with another paramour; they would not question the decision and would just wish their would-be-former lover the best, then turn to their pet dog and give it a cuddle.

     A series of angry, sarcastic, belittling Facebook posts from a person are obviously directed towards them; they would choose not to retaliate or make some caustic comments but would just quietly unfriend this person, then, share some funny memes.

     A tattooed, tall, bearded muscular man wants to use her as his, or her, pronoun; they would not contest it and get into a heated argument about gender pronouns and how some people would abuse it, and would just address this man using the pronouns her or she, they then would advise this muscular girl as to what kind of dress would look good on her.

     A cyclist would hit and scratch the Lamborghini they were driving; they would not fly into a rage and curse the cyclist and draw a gun on him or demand that he pay for the damage, they’d just advise him to be more careful next time and then they would go home and feed their birds.

     A man is thinking of committing suicide; they would not berate him for giving up easily on life, and just watch him jump from the top of a skyscraper, or advise him regarding painless methods of suicide. `Kidding, they’ll talk him out of it and tell him that life is still precious despite the difficulties, then they’d go home and watch Netflix. Saving a man from killing himself will give someone immense peace of mind.

     A peaceful mind also means peaceful, longer sleep at night.

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