Certainly our life is full of real problems, some of them perhaps without solution. It would be an impertinence to suggest that all of our problems are fabricated. And yet we are so obsessed with the idea that we are supposed to possess "answers" and "solutions" for everything that we evade the difficult problems, which are all too real, by raising other less real problems to which we think we have the answer.
Merton, Thomas. Contemplation in a World of Action. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame Press, 1998) 48
There are things that have no solution other than a time solving one - Cuba and Castro is one example. My financial problems were solved when I turned 62 and took Social Security. My aunt's huge insurance premiums go away when she goes on Medicaid.
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Sarge
People usually go for the easy answer first.
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