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April 06, 2006
The Serenity Prayer
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Normally I’m not one for references to God or prayer, etc.; I’d be happy enough to achieve such serenity, courage, and wisdom without its being divinely granted. Nevertheless, the famous Serenity Prayer reflects one of the issues I seem to be struggling with lately, namely control. Certainly many people have control issues, in various contexts and to varying degrees of severity. In my case, the biggest obstacle seems to be “serenity” — I do okay recognizing the difference between what I can control and what I can’t, but I have a hard time accepting the latter.
I may have more thoughts on this later, but I’m going to leave it there for right now and, y’know, go do my job for a change. :) For what it’s worth, I do accept that I have some control over the lab but not over the students. There’s just no controlling them….
Posted by alex at April 6, 2006 12:47 PM