‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.  ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide.All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’ — Fellowship of the Ring

My Take – When bad things are happening, it is a normal human reaction to look around yourself and say “I wish this wasn’t happening”.  But that is a thought that leads to nowhere.  It is difficult to do sometimes, but taking a rational look at the world, figuring out what the real problems are, and finding ways to either live through them or succeed in spite of them makes life easier in the long run.

A nation that denies that bad people exist in the world and that those bad actors want to cause harm is in denial and will pay for it.

Put another way, the people I know who use up all of their energy dealing with their own drama are the same ones who refuse to find and change the causes of that drama.

Either way, denial may be the only thing more expensive than regret.