260113 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Meditation(s):

Meditations, 4.23 (Waterfield)

Certainly would be convenient to believe in Fate and be done with it, but as the Stoics teach, best to deal with the world as it is than as I wish it were.

So I don't believe in Fate or a Providential Universe. Now what?

Well, the simplest thing, the easiest and least ancious way to deal with it, is to accept it as a useful psychological tool to help accept unpleasant / devastating worlds without imploding. Even if I don't know the reason, maybe there is one.

It can also help keep me focused on the basics: since Providence isn't out there doing something infernal, liminal, or angelic to my world, then it's either random or deterministic and not up to me in either case.

IF anything is up to me, it would be only be my internal world, my opinions, and my actions. So long as I limit myself to these, and to aiming for the right goal, I should be (as) ok (as I can be).

Alternately, I could toss this sometimes useful tool for trying and instead try to figure out how to base my happiness on externals. That will turn out well, I'm sure.