Three choices

Jul 6, 2021#感悟 #思考126

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When you like someone, you have three options: date them, work on yourself to change their feelings, or keep your feelings to yourself. When you're unhappy with your environment, you can change it, adapt to it, or accept it. These options are also applicable when there's conflict between your inner self and the outside world. These options are associated with Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

When you like someone, there are three choices:

Interact and engage with them.
Work on yourself to change their feelings towards you.
Keep your feelings to yourself and avoid interacting with them.

When you are dissatisfied with the external environment, there are three choices:

Find a way to change the environment.
Change your own mindset to adapt to the environment.
Neither change the environment nor change your own mindset, as it is said in Jin Yong's novels, "Let him be strong, the gentle breeze brushes the mountain; let him be arrogant, the bright moon shines on the river."

Whenever there is a conflict between your inner self and the outside world, there are these three solutions:

Change the external world.
Change your inner self.
Make no changes and let it be.

Confucianism changes the external world, Buddhism changes the inner self, and Taoism makes no changes.