Thread by @medicalaxioms

If you are burned out, tired, angry or exhausted I want to help you.

I’d like to help you suffer less.

Let me offer you a suggestion that works for me. 1/15

You need to match your sphere of concern to your sphere of influence. 2/15

You need to match your responsibility to your agency. 3/15

When it rains, you have the food sense not to yell at the clouds. Clouds don’t care.

Wishing and hoping it doesn’t rain is wasted time. Clouds gonna do what clouds do. We mostly know this so weather is not too stressful. 4/15

I often lose this good sense when it comes to people. I know someone changed my mind in 1979 so I know it’s possible.

And I know through electronic media I can “talk” to people around the world.

So I think I can influence people. 5/15

You might do this too. It’s is pervasive. We even label people as “influencer.” The people who read your stuff on this app we call “followers.”

That’s magical thinking. 6/15

Nobody follows me. Not you either.

It will make you less exhausted and less anxious if you see yourself as the size you really are. 7/15

Don’t worry about saving the world. Go for a walk. The world will save itself whether you worry about it or not. It’s a real relief to know how unimportant you are. 8/15

Not my circus.
Not my monkeys.
🐵🐵🐵 9/15

Back to the topic, people are going to do what they are going to do. They don’t care what you or I have to say about it.

Vaccine, mask, ivermectin. Information and disinformation. It’s all beyond my control and I know it. Just like the clouds and the rain. 10/15

You’ll feel better if you know it too. 11/15

Match your sphere of concern to your sphere of influence. 12/15

Get the serenity to accept the things you cannot change
The courage to change the things you can
The wisdom to know the difference.
As the popular prayer goes. 13/15

Neither you nor I is a government.
We aren’t corporations.
We aren’t economies

We are just people you and me.
It feels good to only be one person.
Surrounded by some dogs, kids, friends. 14/15

I’m not master of the universe.
I can’t make people change their minds.

I can offer these thoughts to you that have helped me.
That’s not influence. That just me offering something to you in the hopes you can feel better. 15/15