The Daily Stoic - Don't Make Life Tougher

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Starting point is 00:00:53 Life is hard. There are floods and fires, tyrants and train wrecks. Plagues that are so unpredictable, people who are so frustrating, and of course fortune always does as she pleases. We don't control any of that. We don't control what happens to us. We don't control how hard life is for people we care about. But you know what we do control? We control whether or not we make things harder for others. As we celebrate Pride Month here in the U, it is a good time to ask ourselves, am I

Starting point is 00:01:25 making life harder for others? Imagine how difficult it would be to be born into a world where you feel like you don't quite fit in, where you're not sure who you are, and where you have a very real sense that some people, perhaps even your own parents, will treat you differently for simply being true to yourself. Imagine what it must have been like to be a gay person born in the 1950s when even an accusation was enough to wreck your career and carefully constructed life.

Starting point is 00:01:53 Imagine how disorienting it would be if your gender was even a question you needed to consider for more than a second. We can go through a thousand other thought exercises, but we don't need to. The point is, it's tough. Maybe that's not your struggle, maybe you have plenty of your own struggles. But as Marcus Aurelius reminds us any harm to the bee harms the hive. And in fact, Marcus Aurelius' and Junius Rousticus' example is an even more powerful statement. The persecutions of the Christians, which was then a

Starting point is 00:02:26 fledgling and misunderstood religion by the Stoics, is a terrible black mark on the philosophy. If you can't celebrate and be accepting of how others live, you can at least strive not to make their lives harder. You can at least leave them alone. Remember, it is possible not to have an opinion. It is possible not to pass judgment. It is possible to have your view on something and let others have theirs. It is possible to imagine how tough life already is for people. And it is possible not to make life tougher for them. Hey, it's Ryan. Thank you for listening to the Daily Stoog podcast. I just wanted to say we so appreciate it.

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The Daily Stoic - Don't Make Life Tougher

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