The Daily Stoic - The Highway Don’t Care

Episode Date: February 3, 2021

“It doesn’t matter that you’re a safe driver. Or that you’ve always paid your taxes. It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for this. Or that you volunteer with poor blind kids after school.”Ryan discusses the odds that we are all up against and how indifferent they are to our lives, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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A highway, don't care. It doesn't matter that you're a safe driver, or that you've always paid your taxes. It doesn't matter how hard you've worked for this, or that you volunteer with poor blind kids after school. The highway doesn't care. It doesn't care about the tractor trailer whose driver fell asleep either. It doesn't care about the slippery roads. It doesn't care that you paid for on-star. It doesn't care that you're a famous comedian. It doesn't care about you at all. The road

is unmerciful. So is the war that can easily break out. So is the con man and the criminal. So are the pandemics and the building collapses, always take full note of Fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases. Seneca reminds us, don't trust prosperity, he said, don't think it can't happen to you because it can. Remember even the averages that come down in your favor, the odds against lung cancer if you don't smoke the odds of a plane crash, the odds of the flash drive reformatting, if you don't unplug it properly, are still ruthless to the individual. It happens to somebody. Somebody always takes the weight, and that somebody could be

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