Stoic Coffee Break

“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 12Show Notes:How often do we think that something in life shouldn’t happen to us?As if we are somehow immune to the things that happen to anyone else in life.How often do we think that we are owed something?As if we are somehow privileged above others, that we deserve somethingWe may think it’s unfair when something we worked hard for fails to materialize.We may think it’s unfair that someone we love gets cancer, that they didn’t deserve it.We may think we deserve a perfect partner because go to the gym workout and wear nice clothes.The world is full of all kinds of stories about people getting hit with the unexpected and didn’t get what they wanted.Who determines what is fair and unfair?So much in our lives that is simply up to chance, where we have no control over it.We never deserve anything.Now this doesn’t mean that all is lost.Let go of trying to control the things that we c