It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World So Repeat After Me

The job I'm currently doing to make money is a daily reminder that for a lot of my co-citizens, navigating their way through life in this complicated, and increasingly unresponsive and unaccountable society we've boxed ourselves into, is too much. And I know, myself, when My Blond Companion and I had to deal with a minor financial injustice recently, I ended up with a kidney stone, so stressful was it for me, and I'm a citizen of privilege in pretty much every way possible.

We were in the right, but it didn't matter. I'd gone down that road people like me sometimes go down and couldn't see the harm I was doing to myself in seeking that elusive vindication of justice being served, because if you're going to head down that road, you have to keep both perspective and a sense of humour, and I'd left both those essentials behind.

So personal lesson learned, I thought, when we just sucked it up and paid the money not owed.

Alas, no, because the only thing that really works - and I should have known this because I've put it into practice before with remarkable success to my health and well-being - is to recognize that everybody suffers the odd injustice here and there via our interactions with each other, deal with it (however you prefer to deal with these sorts of things), and then wish everybody involved well, including yourself. Seriously, just do it. It's the best antidote ever.

And then be kind, be kind, be kind, and so on and so forth and more of the same etc etc, because we all benefit from kindness.