"Rather, **a life spent “not minding what happens” is one lived without the inner demand to know that the future will conform to your desires for it—and thus without having to be constantly on edge as you wait to discover whether or not things will unfold as expected**. None of that means we can’t act wisely in the present to reduce the chances of bad developments later on. And we can still respond, to the best of our abilities, should bad things nonetheless occur; we’re not obliged to accept suffering or injustice as part of the inevitable order of things. But to the extent that we can stop demanding certainty that things will go our way later on, we’ll be liberated from anxiety in the only moment it ever actually is, which is this one." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[acceptance]], [[discipline]], [[character]], [[amor-fati]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[routines]], [[responding-to-change]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]