The Daily Stoic - This Is Our Duty

Episode Date: November 27, 2020

"That nice, warm feeling you have right now? That fullness? From the food you stuffed yourself with, from the wonderful meal you had with your family?It’s important that you realize not everyone is feeling that right now."Ryan explains what we can do to help others who don't have enough to eat this holiday season on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.Donate to the Daily Stoic Feeding America fundraiser: http://dailystoic.com/feed***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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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. This is our duty. That feeling you feel right now, that fullness from the food you stuffed yourself with yesterday, from the wonderful meal you had with your family. It's important that you realize not everyone is feeling that right now. In fact, they may well be feeling the exact opposite. While you sit here with a Thanksgiving hangover, they're feeling pangs of hunger. You're wondering if you'll ever eat

again and they are in a very different way thinking the exact same thing. The pandemic has not just taken hundreds of thousands of lives. It's also wreaked enormous devastation on families, on businesses, on people who are already struggling. And now, now they're broken nearly one in eight households in the United States is experiencing food insecurity, and almost 20% of children aren't getting enough food to eat. You might be thinking, so what? Stoicism is focusing on what's in my control. Why should I let a slow-moving humanitarian crisis

kill my vibe? Because as Marcus Aurelius wrote, those suffering humans are us and we are them. To allow harm to come to them through indifference, through callousness, is to allow harm to come to ourselves. It's why the most magnificent moment of Marcus's reign was the day he decided to sell off the palace furnishings

to keep Rome going, to help those in need. Another famous stoic spoke of our circles of concern. Our first control, our first concern, the Stoic said, was our mind. But beyond this was our concern for our bodies, for our immediate family, then our extended family. Like concentric rings, these circles were followed by our concern for our community, our city, our country, our empire, our world. The work of philosophy, the Stoic said, was to draw this outer concern inward, to learn how to care as much as possible, for as many people as possible, to do as much good for them as possible.

O.K.O.S.S. This was the Stoic's affinity for our fellow human beings. It was our obligation, our duty, they said, to help other people, to serve them, to illustrate those virtues of courage and justice toward and for and through them. So today, on a day when an ordinary circumstances, people would be lining up to get a deal on a flat screen television or gorging on leftovers while they post photos on social media, let us instead put our energy towards helping the less fortunate. The pandemic is not in our

control. Government policy is at best only something we barely influence, but we can help people from being hungry. We can alleviate someone's worry and fear. We can put food on their table. Better yet, we can do this together. Daily Stoke is raising money for feeding America. You can go to dailystoke.com slash feed. We've donated the first $10,000 and what we hope is at least a $20,000 raise, which would provide more than 200,000 meals for families across the United States. Together, we can make a small dent and a big problem. We can't alleviate all the suffering and struggle in the world. No one can.

But for the people, we can help. The difference is huge. So let's do it. Let's be a good stoic today. Go to dailystoac.com slash feed. I just put in the first $10,000. You can see it there. We're encouraging you to make whatever donation you can if it's I just put in the first $10,000. You can see it there.

We're encouraging you to make whatever donation you can. If it's a dollar, if it's $10, it's $100. If it's more amazing, there is, to me, nothing as nonpartisan and effective as these food banks. The feeding America provides food for all the different food banks across the United States. So we're not just picking one geographic area. You know, we donated a bunch of money from Daily Stoke to the food banks here in Central

Texas. That's where we're based. But this one is a national donation. We're trying to feed as many people as possible. Together we can provide up to 200,000 meals. If we can double this donation, just go to dailystoke.com slash feed. I hope everyone is feeling good as we've quoted before the Great Bill Campbell. If you've been blessed, be a blessing. Let's see what we can do for other people, dailystoke.com slash feed.

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