Vika Krieger

It gives me an impetus to sort of grapple with these questions, right?

I don't believe in God because I feel like I have to.

It actually brings meaning to my life.

But I also, like, I don't want to just punt on your question because I can give a more specific answer of, like, what I recommend.

Like, I'm a big fan of prayer.

And you might be like, wait, what?

Like, if someone doesn't believe in God, the prescription you're going to give them is prayer.

And, you know, to me, like, I like to say, you know, there's that phrase, like, dance like nobody's watching or whatever.

So I like to say, like, pray like nobody's listening.

So, like, there's, like, two parts of it.

One is...

Just stating what you want, like verbalizing and allowing those words to come out of your mouth actually has a positive impact.

People who verbalize what they want feel more of a sense of hope.

And then like number two is like I really do find a lot of power in this idea of surrender.

You know, just like, oh, like, there's something I really want, and, like, one solution is to just, like, work my ass off and, like, grasp and, like, really try and get that thing.

And then, like, there's another strategy, which actually in the strategies are not mutually exclusive.

You can say, like, actually, this is, like, totally not within my control to get, and I'm going to, like, surrender my ability to get.

make this thing happen.

And there is something perhaps counterintuitively really helpful, for me at least, to just be like, yeah, I'm going to just put this out there and surrender my sort of exclusive control around making this happen.

And so prayer to me has those