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I agree that neither you nor any of us can snap our fingers and magically improve anything immediately. Hell, that's exactly the kind of magical thinking that I fight in myself all the time. ("If I can just do X, suddenly everything will be better!")

There are lots of contexts in which you can't really fake it - I wouldn't recommend faking being a doctor or lawyer or programmer or paramedic.

In an emotional context, it can work, because we're all emotional feedback machines, and we can fool ourselves, reframe our worlds, through the power of thinking. It's like the whole thing about smiling while you greet someone on the phone - when you smile, you sound happier. It's making myself concentrate on things that are good or accomplishments I have had (instead of the ones I don't).

It ain't a rose garden, it ain't all bunnies and rainbows, but it also ain't quite so many anger headaches and lost nights of sleep.

There's an awful lot out there that would make me angry, if I wasn't busy with living the rest of my life and hadn't realized that a) I can't really do much about them and b) in order to do even a little bit about them, I would have to quit doing the other things that I am doing. It's not just the angry things - I could go get myself an MBA to further my career, but I'd have to quit doing the SCA and I consider the SCA more important right now.

Anyway - feel free to email me if you'd rather not continue this by LJ comment in a completely unrelated post, since I suspect you're a "can't let a response go unresponded to" person, like me.