A quick read of a website on my Freedom blocklist and I’m off to the races. My thoughts go straight into the ditch. “Them son of bitches”.
A man’s gotta know his limitations. I am learning mine: I am not so mentally strong.
But the brief detour to hell brought an interesting realization. The article that I read, taking my brain straight to hell? Glenn Greenwald’s resignation from The Intercept. He perceived Biden-friendly censorship from that publication.
The realization: that I am uncomfortable with inferences he draws from facts he sees. I simultaneously admire his work and feel deep discomfort because he doesn’t think the same thoughts that I think. He doesn’t see the same facts that I see, either.
This discomfort is in the “within my control” region. Why am I uncomfortable? And so what if I am?
There is no finish line. Let go of the discomfort. That’s within my control.
It is also within my control to be fearless and clear-eyed. Reality seems to reveal itself in the face of fearlessness.