Dragging

Stoic Philosophy can teach us about attitude and mindset. I’ve been dragging a bit this week and I’ve pulled up this quote several times to check myself. Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, had trouble getting out of bed 2000 years ago, just like we all do now.

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’”

So you were born to feel “nice”? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don’t you see the plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you’re not willing to do your job as a human being?"

—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Justin Miner

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