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I just got off the phone with my mom.
Mom: You're working hard on your PhD, aren't you?
Me: Yes, ma there's lots to do. Oh and I put in a paper for a conference. If it gets accepted I'll go to America to present it.
Mom: Of course it will get accepted. You're working so hard, won't God listen to you?
Everything comes from God. Forget making amazing awe-inspiring monuments. Writing a paper on air pollution in London comes from Him. Getting to go to a conference comes from Him.
My mom can't truly appreciate what I do. Because fundamentally, at the gut level, she can't get that I can accomplish anything. It's arrogant for me to even think I could do anything without Lord Krishna's supreme flute inspired magic.
Now that's a problem I want to solve.
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Of course, if it doesn't get accepted, that too will be part of God's plan. Nevermind the fact that if God is the explanation for everything, it's really the explanation for nothing