Today's Meditation: Meditations , 7.21 (Hicks and Hicks) Present author excluded. Thank goodness. Myself? Yeah, probably within 15-20 years. Maybe more if I improve my health. But that's ok. It's fine. I'm not meant to be remembered forever. So what? Oh no! I'm like everybody else in history! I can live with that.

Today's Meditation: Meditations , 7.17 (Hicks and Hicks) I am not angry with you, but just go away.  Impulses, stray thoughts, intrusive thoughts, all are natural, if unwanted. I can acknowledge that there's no issues that they showed up — I'm not somehow culpable, not to be blamed, for them — but that I do not need to indulge them. I can tell them to go and return to my task at hand.

Today's Mediation: Meditations , 7.14 (Hicks and Hicks) If I choose not to be harmed, I am not harmed. But but but what about physical injury!? Haven't you ever seen one of those inspirational stories about someone who lost a limb or is paralyzed and hasn't let that define their life? What more do you need to prove that if you truly choose not to be harmed, then you are not harmed .

Today's Mediation: Meditations , 7.3 (Hicks and Hicks) A mild manner and without condescension. This hits too close to home for me. I am guilty of this sin. Help me to do better, O Emperor!  Seriously though, I do need to be better at treating others with all the respect they deserve as members of the common polity. And measuring worth by what is person cares about, what they value? Luckily, Stoicssm is an active philosophy, so what a person cares about will be easily observed in what they do and say. I hope my actions speak well of me.