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Tranquility is a real trait that some people have. It’s not a common one.

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And those people are not necessarily pacifists. The issue is that the idea that you would get from movies and TV is that they are one and the same.

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Hijacking this comment thread to say I appreciate you

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Thank you!

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For most people, a prerequisite feeling for tranquility, is contentment.

And trust me, no pacifist is “content” with the current state of the world. “Worry-free” is literally in the first sentence on the wikipedia page of the word, and I don’t think anyone can be that, except temporarily and/or by being inebriated.

The only way I know to be tranquil, is to ignore the world, and willfully focus only on the good things in my immediate surroundings, in my life specifically.

Essentially, to get there I have to take a break from caring about most things. I don’t like doing that. I want to improve things, and to do that I have to care about things to begin with.

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If you had to be content with the state of the world before feeling tranquil, nobody would ever feel tranquil.

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Then it’s a good thing that isn’t what I claimed.

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