Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.
As far back as ancient Greece we have had a version of "give me the strength to change what I can, the peace of mind to accept what I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference".
"It is what it is" just adds "spare me the fucks on that which does not matter".
It may be the weed talking, but that was profound AF.
and so it goes
I only say that in response to things I have no control over. It's a stoic comfort.
If I can change shit, I will.
Yeah, then maybe we wouldn't be facing down extinction level climate change that's killing off most species around the world right now.
You think the millions of people that got embroiled in the various apocalyptic wars throughout history didn't say to themselves something like that in order to just keep going?
On the flipside, how many people were tortured or killed to accept it is what it is?
If someone gives me that phrase, I respond with "yes, it definitely is." Or "well, it isn't what it isn't".
Might be preferable to being stuck down this stupid leg of the Trousers of Time
I think IIWII is what’s called a “thought-terminating cliche”, which might make it recursive: It is what it is is what it is what it is is.
That hurt to type out.
Like that is a bad thing
That explicitly isn't a bad thing (assuming you live in a climate that you won't freeze to death) but thing's like clean water, vaccines, antibiotics, constant supply of food, oh yeah and Grass huts don't forget those are a human invention too.