As the rose in spring and the fruits in summer.
Perspective on misfortune. Some personal update since Streamlabs.
A Stoic quote
Every day, I pick up my copy of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations and pick a random line to ponder. Here’s the one from today:
“Everything that happens is as familiar and well known as the rose in spring and the fruits in summer; for such is disease and death and calumny and treachery and whatever else delights fools or vexes them.”
== Meditations. Book 4: 44
From the Stoic point of view, misfortune events are to be expected in life: “as familiar .. as the rose in spring.” Only fools will get upset by something that happens all the time.
This morning, I hurt my ankle taking my motorcycle out to ride to work. Except for the momentary anguish in pain, I try to remind myself that to avoid misfortune of this kind, I would have to stay at home and avoid all the amazing promise out there in the world. And that is the true misfortune with a capitalized letters throughout.
Personal update
I’m still in Saigon, Vietnam these days to set up my esports project. It’s been going pretty exciting and soon enough we will have first super-lofi launch in September. Will definitely bother you when that happens.