“They helped us to get down to our right size.” (Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions)
I have a habit of assessing whole swathes of my life or the world and drawing gloomy conclusions.
The answer here is not, in my case, ‘thinking it through’, but humility, recognising I’m insufficiently knowledgeable, skilled, intelligent, and wise to draw such or indeed any grand conclusions. Even if the first three deficits were fixed, the ego’s sidewinds blow my assessment off course; the self-centred perspective makes all that is near seem large and all that is far, small, regardless of actual magnitude; and the selfishness has me overstressing my immediate experience of situations rather than their substance or value.
Best to pull back and simply let God guide, without assessing at all.