Life is full of strange contradictions. In today's rant I bring forth yet another:
Inactive action. What do I mean you might ask? its rather simple after you try to catch on; an easy way to begin pondering on the subject is considering how limited human beings are. The number of things one can actually act upon and change is grossly outnumbered by the things one cannot do a thing about, in a wide bird's eye view of things.
In trying to change things one cannot, precious energy, time, and otherwisely important resources are consumed to no justifiable avail - the end result is the distance towards the current situation and the ambitioned change just becomes a larger chasm.
To avoid this cycle of wastefulness, one must learn to be able to simply not act upon what one cannot, or rather, act by waiting, observing, and peering one's senses into perceiving the most exactly favorable opportunity to take a given action; even if you know why and how, when you do something (or not) is just as critical and the Inactive Action philosophy can be of great aid to refrain the instinct of intervening that humans can display, especially under emotional influence.
In short, learn when not to do, and you'll be doing more than you believe.