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<p>“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”</p><p>― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 12</p><p><strong>Show Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>How often do we think that something in life shouldn’t happen to us?</li><li>As if we are somehow immune to the things that happen to anyone else in life.</li><li>How often do we think that we are owed something?</li><li>As if we are somehow privileged above others, that we deserve something</li><li>We may think it’s unfair when something we worked hard for fails to materialize.</li><li>We may think it’s unfair that someone we love gets cancer, that they didn’t deserve it.</li><li>We may think we deserve a perfect partner because go to the gym workout and wear nice clothes.</li><li>The world is full of all kinds of stories about people getting hit with the unexpected and didn’t get what they wanted.</li><li>Who determines what is fair and unfair?</li><li>So much in our lives that is simply up to chance, where we have no control over it.</li><li>We never deserve anything.</li><li>Now this doesn’t mean that all is lost.</li><li>Let go of trying to control the things that we can’t control, and focus on what we can.</li><li>We cannot control the circumstances that happen to us.</li><li>We cannot control the outcome.</li><li>What we can control is how we respond to the things that happen to us.</li><li>If we are diagnosed with an serious illness, we can’t control that it happened to us.</li><li>We can’t control whether we’ll recover from it.</li><li>If we follow the prescriptions of our doctor, we increase our probability of a positive outcome.</li><li>We may not get the job we think we deserve. But we can increase the probability that we’ll get a good job if we put the work in.</li><li>We can also choose our attitude towards towards our situation. We can be angry, we can be sad, we can react in many different ways.</li><li>We’re going to have deal with it anyway, so if we can approach it in the most helpful way we can, we reduce our overall suffering.</li><li>I think that most suffering in the world happens when we try to control the things that we can’t and fail to control what we can.</li><li>Life is full of surprises, but it shouldn’t be.</li></ul><div>---<br>Hello friends! Thanks for listening. <br>Want to take these principles to the next level?<a href="https://stoic.coffee/join"> Join the Stoic Coffee House Community</a>! <br><br>Stop by the website at <a href="http://www.stoic.coffee/">stoic.coffee</a> where you can sign up for our newsletter, and buy some great looking shirts and hoodies at the <a href="https://stoic.coffee/">Stoic Coffee Shop</a>. <br><br>Like the theme song? You can find it <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ericklind/journey-by-moonlight">here from my alter ego</a>. :)<br><br></div><div>Find me on <a href="https://instagram.co/stoic.coffee">instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/stoiccoffee">twitter</a>, or <a href="https://threads.net/stoic.coffee">threads</a><br><br></div><div>Lastly if you know of someone that would benefit from or appreciate this podcast, please share it. Word of mouth is the best way to help this podcast grow. <br><strong>Thanks again for listening.</strong></div><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>