God grant me
The serenity to accept
The things I cannot change,
Courage
To change the things I can,
And wisdom always
To tell the
Difference.
This is a prayer that Billy has on his wall in his optometry office, and when I read it, it sounded very familiar to me, as well as very wise. I don’t know for sure if I had heard it before reading the book or not, but nonetheless I feel that this small prayer has an amazing strength. It is very true that many things I life cannot be changed, and instead of spending time trying to get them to be different or being reluctant to accept these things, one can get a lot more from them if one accepts what has happened and learns from it. The things that can be changed are the hardest to do most times. Making the right choice is not always easy, and that is why courage to do what is right even if it is hard is very important. Wisdom is, in my opinion, the most important of the three traits mentioned in this prayer. With wisdom it is possible for each trait to be used in the appropriate time.
Another important part of this chapter was the description of the way the war prisoners were taken to the prison camp. I think that this vivid way in which he describes the way they were packed in a small boxcar, the way they were fed, and how it was to live in those conditions shows a very real side of the war, and a very non-romanticized look at it that is not usually shown.
The serenity to accept
The things I cannot change,
Courage
To change the things I can,
And wisdom always
To tell the
Difference.
This is a prayer that Billy has on his wall in his optometry office, and when I read it, it sounded very familiar to me, as well as very wise. I don’t know for sure if I had heard it before reading the book or not, but nonetheless I feel that this small prayer has an amazing strength. It is very true that many things I life cannot be changed, and instead of spending time trying to get them to be different or being reluctant to accept these things, one can get a lot more from them if one accepts what has happened and learns from it. The things that can be changed are the hardest to do most times. Making the right choice is not always easy, and that is why courage to do what is right even if it is hard is very important. Wisdom is, in my opinion, the most important of the three traits mentioned in this prayer. With wisdom it is possible for each trait to be used in the appropriate time.
Another important part of this chapter was the description of the way the war prisoners were taken to the prison camp. I think that this vivid way in which he describes the way they were packed in a small boxcar, the way they were fed, and how it was to live in those conditions shows a very real side of the war, and a very non-romanticized look at it that is not usually shown.
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