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Tag: Aurelius

  • A Quote

    Hi-ho and hello.

    Trying to be positive through life calls for a large amount of energy doesn’t it? At least this is something that I find through the days that creates a lamenting for the time, for this unforeseen loss of something forgotten but it’s due to a dedication in maintaining being a pillar for those we raise, for the ones we love, and want to bring happiness to.

    I feel Aurelius grasps a sensational idea of the emotions we hold to burden our hearts and minds daily and how we process the anguish, the frustration, and how much we let it become a fastidious adversity to our wholes.

    I talk from experience, as I let so many worries and anxieties become an object and variable to the completions of the days. In just being a partner to my wife, guiding my son toward being somewhat independent, at least enough to ask for help for himself, and making sure the night ends on a good note, it calls for a methodical plan to being positive, refraining from the negative realities, even if they’re just from myself or an idea of us, it’s something that, yes can be thought of, but not given power to, given fuel for, in feeding the worries, in extrapolating to what it is that festers, you let it grow, and it becomes a manifestation that is harder to tame.

    The worst part about letting it build and gain momentum with the negativity is it does affect our souls, it curates the behaviours and the way we create to the whole continuing on due to the fears you let take hold.

    So if you find yourself gaining the firing red frustrations or liquid worries that flow from side to side within the head, take a rest, take a breath, and before you react take a nap.

    Going to try to close each post with a song or playlist. Hope you enjoy.

    C’est la vie

    Nosce Te Ipsum

  • Day Five, January 5th, 2024

    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