Catch-22

Courage:  The quality of being confident, not afraid, or easily intimidated, but without being incautious or inconsiderate.

"Courage to change the things I can."  Indeed.

There have been five mass extinctions on earth, defined as the loss of at least 80% of all existing life forms.  The earth is going to be just fine.  The earth has been around a long time and it will adapt just fine to whatever happens.

Let's not forget the dinosaurs roamed the planet for 65 million years.  THAT'S staying power.

"Until now, our lives have been largely devoted to running from pain and problems.  We fled from them as from a plague.  We never wanted to deal with the fact of suffering.  Escape via the bottle was always our solutions.  Character-building through suffering might be all right for saints, but it certainly didn't appeal to us."  12&12 P 74

Catch-22: A dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.

And then a little later: "The chief activator of our defects has been self-centered fear - primarily fear that we would lose something we already possessed or would fail to get something we demanded.  Living upon a basis of unsatisfied demands, we were in a state of continual disturbance and frustration."  12&12 P76

That's quite the Catch-22.

 “If you describe a situation as a catch-22, you mean it is an impossible situation because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing.”