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“It is what it is.”

Indeed, perhaps it is. Why fight the inherent nature of the world around us? Why bother trying to change what we cannot change?

But the only problem is that we rarely know the true meaning of what it is. The trap of this lazy form of stoicism becomes apparent when we consider the fact that we are often unable to reliably discern what something actually is, what we can or cannot change, and that we misjudge what is or isn’t worth changing in the first place; this is not only because we are pitifully bad at foreseeing and mapping out the consequences of our actions, but also because we repeatedly underestimate ourselves and excessively feed our self-doubt. Lest we continue to banalize this adage to use as a means of justifying our complacency.