You can’t expect anyone or anything to act how you want them to. It’s just not how the world works.
You can’t expect people to be as clean as you. You can’t expect people to be as courteous and considerate as you. You can’t expect technology to work how you want it to. You can’t expect anything of anyone other than yourself.
As much as you’d like for people to act a certain way or for the world around you to be a certain way, you cannot control anything or anyone other than yourself.
Other people act how they believe they should. They act on their own habits and instincts. They follow their own set of rules and manage their lives how they see fit. Just like you do.
The world runs on a complex series of physics, biological means for survival, and code whether it be DNA or computer code in our technology. Nature doesn’t care if you’re having a bad day. Technology doesn’t work just because you have a deadline to meet.
Stop expecting others to act a certain way. Stop expecting everything to work how you want it to.
All you can control is how you act and how you respond to the actions of other people and the world.
So let everyone and everything act how they will and accept it for how it is, not how you wish it were.
December 6, 2021
