I’ll start with a quote, one from my favorite stoic, Marcus Aurelius.
“You’re better off not giving the small things more than they deserve.” –Marcus Aurelius
My thoughts: I ponder and though the other day I addressed the Labrador-happy-go-lucky-next-day-attitude. And yet, there is a truth to the statement mentioned above. If we lived to let those small things, those small worries that more likely press to the Id or Ego, the manifestation becomes so weighted and juxtaposed with the emotions of one moment that the other emotions present and current are considered to be null and void. And atop that, what can we control other than ourselves?
I take this quote though toward aspects of work, school, and creating what I choose to. To finish is but a concept most of the time. I let the details; those minute issues reside within the scopes of what’s referred to, overwhelm the cause.
Essentially what I’ve found through reading Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus as well as others of the stoic kind is a call to remove the fluff, the squiggles of life and the chaos that blinds us from the whole that is unfolding every minute. There is this call to close the mind from the distractions and the drama that floods our airways and screens to focus on what is needed. It’s not to shut the world around us but to link the causal factors that can aid in defining who we are as the original self.
Side Note: I know it’s one am and I’m still running my day of the fifth. The days blend together at times. Sorry.
Aiming for clarity and for a deeper understanding in being a better person. I’ll share my thoughts in the morn, goodnight readers.
Nosce Te Ipsum
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