Solve or Resolve?

Solu­tions may begin in your head, but they do not become real­ity until they are seen in your actions. You can choose the right answer to a test, but it does you no good until you mark it on the test itself. Solu­tions are linked to actu­al­i­ties. Res­o­lu­tions are a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. They have more to do with how you see the things around you. You may not be able to solve a life prob­lem, but you can resolve it and go on.

This may sound like a mere word play, but it is actu­ally much more. You can­not think prob­lems away, but you can resolve not to let them bother you. It is all too easy to live in our heads. Even worse, we are told how to see things — even taught to lie to our­selves. It is part of the Orwellian world in which we live. To buy the lie is men­tal sui­cide. Not to appear to go along with it is social sui­cide. Such eras gen­er­ate a lot of poker faces. We dare not expose what we really think lest we suf­fer the con­se­quences of being true to our­selves in a dis­torted era.

Peo­ple sur­vive by resolve. Deep inside they main­tain real­ity and the truths they know to be valid. They wait out the irra­tional storm. They can­not solve the issues beyond their imme­di­ate con­trol, but they can resolve to be true to them­selves no mat­ter what.

If life goes crazy around you, you do not have to go with it. You are not going to be able to solve it, but you are able to do some­thing far more pow­er­ful — resolve it!