The Daily Stoic - We Have An Obligation

Episode Date: November 26, 2021

Ryan talks about the hunger crisis that America faces and explains how you can make a difference, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.We've joined Team Feed Corporate to help end hunger in America. No one should go without a meal, yet more than 38 million people in America still face hunger. We created this fundraiser to help provide these much needed meals to our neighbors through the Feeding America network of food banks and we're asking you to join us in our cause. Go to https://dailystoic.com/feeding to donate and let's end hunger together!Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee 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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For more, you can visit us at dailystowup.com. We have an obligation. That nice warm feeling you're carrying over from Thanksgiving, that fullness after any kind of big family get together, from the meal, from the company, from the plenty of it all. It's important that you realize that not everyone is feeling that right now. In fact, many people are experiencing the exact opposite. More than 950 million people are food insecure. More than 38 million people in America still face hunger and some million and a half

children lost their primary or secondary caregiver from COVID-19. They don't know where their next meal is coming from. You might be thinking, so what? Stoicism is about focusing on what's in my control. Why should I care about some slow-moving humanitarian crisis? Because as Mark's really 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. This is 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. There was a Roman stoke who spoke of our circles of concern. Our first concern was our mind, but beyond that was our concern for our bodies, 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 the philosopher to the Stoics 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. And this is our obligation. It is our duty to help others, to serve others, to illustrate those virtues of courage, injustice, toward and for and through others. So on today, so-called Black Friday, when some people might line up to go get a deal on a flat screen television or gorge on leftovers,

let us instead put our energy towards helping the less fortunate. Let us help people from going hungry. Let us alleviate someone's worry or fear. Let us put food on their table. Better yet let us do this together. Daily Stoke is raising money for feeding America. Last year the Daily Stoke community came together and raised over $100,000 together, providing more than a million meals. And this year, we're trying to go twice as big. We've donated the first $20,000,

and we'd like your help getting to our goal, $200,000, which would provide more than two million meals for families across the country. You just have to head over to dailysterec.com slash feeding and together we can make a small vent a big problem. We can't alleviate everyone's struggle or suffering, of course, but for the people we can help, the difference is huge.

So let's do it. Let's be good at stoics today. Let's fulfill our obligation. Just go to dailyststalk.com slash feeding even one dollar can provide as many as 10 meals so head over to dailystalk.com slash feeding to help us reach our goal of providing 2 million meals for families across the country and if you're not in America if you want to do something globally I'm sure there's a bunch of resources there if you're not in America, if you want to do something globally, I'm sure there's a bunch of resources there. If you look for food banks in your local area, try to donate some money to make a difference. Again, this is what Stokes do. This isn't just a philosophy for us.

It's a philosophy that obligates us to help other people. I hope you can celebrate Thanksgiving that way. giving that way. Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to the Daily Stoic Early and Add Free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. Raising kids can be one of the greatest rewards of a parent's life. But come on, someday, parenting is unbearable.

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