What Do I Have to Do with It? And Why Me?, 2

What did you say? You don’t have time to cure yourself because you’re sick, so to have time to heal yourself you’ve got to heal first? You don’t have time to confront a problem because you have that problem, so to have time to confront it it’s got to solve first?
Let’s put it that way: then you rely on the hope that it resolves itself? Or that someone else, fate, Providence, Santa Claus or something does? Or you just do not rely on any hope at all, and you just hold on, shut your eyes and that’s it?
All this is paradoxical. And a trap, with the bottom covered with blades. Because it will never happen. Experience shows that when you let go of the wheel your car ends up in the trench. And in the meantime you keep on sinking since long before it does.
Hope is a surrogate for competence. If you are competent, you know what can be done, so you know it can be done.
What did you say? No time to become competent? It has been said that the reason why you don’t have time is that you’re not competent. No competence, no time.
And I’ll tell you a trick: any improvement is attained despite the apparent circumstances saying it can’t be done; the whole trick consists of knowing that, utterly disagreeing with all the reasons why you can’t, and proceeding despite it all.

Time and again and in many ways it has been said that if you do not take care of something appertaining you, sooner or later that something is going to take care of you – and not exactly in your best interest –. Less frequently it has been specified that the most difficult thing to confront is Evil. Which unfortunately means that the more something is likely to hit you hard – and therefore the more you ought to confront it – the less you’re willing to. Which therefore makes your willpower the make−or−break factor. So, please, guard it accordingly.