Many of us think our most meaningful work has to do with minding other people’s business. Why is it so hard to let other people have their own journey? Why do we persist in interfering in other people’s lives, especially when we reap so few benefits? . . .
How sad that we perceive our own well-being as so tied to the decisions, even occasional whims, of others. But we do it, again and again, and our lives are never better for it, at least in the long run. In the short run, trying to help a loved one live his or her life may seem like the right thing to do — it may even be engaging for awhile — but taking charge of our own lives is as much work as any one of us needs to experience. The work of someone else’s life belongs to that person and God.
— Karen Casey, Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow, p. 11-12