A favorite quote

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Today I came across this passage of Carl Jung, which I read once a very long time ago and which has always rung very true for me.

I always worked with the temperamental conviction that fundamentally there are no insoluble problems, and experience justified me in so far as I have I have often seen individuals simply outgrow a problem which has

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[kyra_ojosverdes]

That would sum up what "being in my 30s" means for me, yeah. Awesome.

[nikki_nana]

I think this is true, with one addition. "I know I that I suffer and that this moment a certain problem may seem insurmountable, but one minute, one hour, one day from now things will look better because the perspective has changed AND, more importantly, someone walked through the moment of suffering with me. And knowing that made all the difference."

[y_pestis]

Thank you, L! As you probably know, I'm not feeling terribly well at the moment, and it has the ability to make me really self-centred and focussed on what I perceive as my own suffering - but what you said really makes sense and makes me realise that I've really got nothing to complain about!! This, too, shall pass, as it has for everyone. Perspective is a wonderful thing.

Thanks for that.

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Oh, that is a good addition.

When I'm facing something unpleasant, at some point I almost always close my eyes and think "In x minutes/hours/days/whatever, this will just be a memory."

[materjibrail]

I think the effectiveness of that depends on a mysterious correlation between the awfulness and the probable length of time. On a spectrum: really awful/short time, to sort of miserable/almost infinity.