[Existential Bread] How to Rise Above the Things You Can’t Control

“We don’t talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that’s all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.”
—Bill Belichick

Last summer my fingers started hurting. It wasn’t unusual because I spent a lot of time blogging and writing code, but the thing that worried me was that my fingers weren’t getting better with rest.

Even though they felt fine when I wasn’t typing, the second I returned to the keyboard, the pain would flare up again.

I tried buying fancy ergonomic keyboards and cut my workday down to two hours, but nothing made a difference.

I started to panic.

How the hell am I going to survive the next seventy years of my life with no fingers?

Problem: Spinning Out of Control

I didn’t appreciate my fingers until I lost control of them. It quickly dawned…