There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble. - Jordan Peterson

You may come to ask yourself, “What should I do today?” in a manner that means “How could I use my time to make things better, instead of worse?

That's poetic in its malevolence

Was it really a good thing, for example, to so dramatically liberalize the divorce laws in the 1960s? It’s not clear to me that the children whose lives were destabilized by the hypothetical freedom this attempt at liberation introduced would say so. Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors. We tear them down at our peril. We skate, unconsciously, on thin ice, with deep, cold waters below, where unimaginable monsters lurk.