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Is this teaching you to appreciate things how suddenly life can take from us? All the things we took for granted whether it's a global pandemic that locks you in your house or one of the capricious X Isles that the stoics experienced much can be taken from us our ability to see our friends our financial Security. Even our freedom of movement. That sucks but it sucks even more if you don't learn from it if you don't take this moment as instructive and
Eye-opening when mu Sonia's Rufus was exiled instead of bemoaning it he reminded himself that even when he was free and in Rome, he didn't see all his friends often enough. He didn't go outside often enough. We're see the city enough so we can imagine that when he finally returned to Rome. He was a little more present and procrastinated less to when Marcus Aurelius was stuck on the muddy Frontiers bogged down in endless war it was then that he wrote his most beautiful and philosophical.
Passages in meditations it was there that he wrote some of those haunting and poignant observations about nature about stocks of grain and Majestic Lions, even though those things were hundreds of miles away some sense of normalcy will eventually return the question for us is whether when that happens. Are we going to go right back to our self-obsessed ungrateful closed-off lives or we going to start appreciating the little things are we going to start noticing?
Going to stop putting things off or taking things for granted a walk around the block a dinner with a friend leisurely browsing a bookstore watching live music pushing your kid on a swing and a park. This quarantine has shown us how special these ordinary things are life is short. It can be interrupted in an instant everything can disappear. So enjoy them while you can appreciate them while you can don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on
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