Dawid Zawiła
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I must dig for my own goodness. It’s not going to just show up. This makes me think of the Ray’s and Astros game yesterday. I got very frustrated throughout the game. The team lost and somewhere prior to that I threw a small fit. A pen went flying because I was annoyed. My daughter came to join me and she was providing quite a bit of optimism. I was frustrated and marveled at her resilience for seeing the good in this play or that.
Zane Lee
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We have a choice in who and what we can become. I’ve been told I had a normal childhood. I guess that’s the case. My parents didn’t split until my brother and I were out of the house. I’ve always cursed that I wasn’t given more attention as I was growing up. I was left to the school of hard knocks. Which certainly has it’s benefit but I used to feel put me at a detriment. In the end it doesn’t matter. I’ve gone into life with a learners attitude. I think some of that is from the shows I used to watch as a kid.
No matter how impossible the situation the A-Team and MacGuyver always found a way out. I often wonder if those TV shows had more of an impact on me than the people around me. I doubt it. Still, you wonder. Either way, I’ve chose not to let my past hold me back on anything. I’ve decided that I can choose to be the person I want to be.
lucas Favre
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Ever since I moved to Tennessee and gotten a really good job, I’ve struggled to find purpose and meaning in my life. It worsened a couple years later when I accomplished my career goals. Previously, I was working towards putting my family into a better situation. That accomplished I didn’t know what was next. I still feel like I don’t. Today’s stoic has flipped that struggle on it’s head. I should not be the one asking it. I am the one answering it. There’s direction in me getting to choose what I want purpose and meaning to be.
Legacy is something I’ve often thought about. I want to leave a good legacy. Then i realize, I won’t care about that legacy because I’ll be dead. What I can do is focus on my family and helping set them up for success down the road. That’s the legacy I can control and influence. Outside of that it doesn’t matter.
I do a lot of self-improvement stuff both mental and physical. The reason and purpose behind those can vary. Today’s stoic suggests that I should work out for myself not for the people who will see me without my shirt off at the beach. Which I have to admit has been motivation in the past. Overall, the goal is to be active and mobile for down the road. Have a better chance at being around when my kids are older and have kids of their own.
We had a discussion about that over dinner with friends. We were discussing who would potentially be around and who wouldn’t for our kids marriage. Some parents are taking better care of themselves than others. They have their own motivations for that. I often compare myself to them. Which may or may not be a good thing.
Lala Azizli
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I’ve been working on a lot of habits during this pandemic. The habit of going to be earlier and not staying up late. This is something I’ve struggled with and continue to struggle with. There are points in the evening where I just don’t want to go to bed. Or I’ll have a string of going to bed at a good time and then a night where I don’t. I did this last night where I really didn’t have anything to do and just procrastinated going to bed. If I’m reading the stoic right instead of sleeping in, I should get up at the same time and go about my day as I would. Albeit a little more tired.
It sort of happened this morning. My body naturally woke up around the same time I’ve been getting up. I’ve been cursing the night me for making that decision but really maybe the night me should take into consideration that morning me is going to get up and go for a run and then cook breakfast and then go to work. Reframing how I look at future situations may help.
Jonathan Borba
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This stoic is a little nuanced. It’s about not having false friends. Friends who say one thing then do another or talk crap behind our back. It can be tricky to identify those friends. Eventually their true colors show through. On the other hand I need to look at myself. Do I do the same thing?
Do I make friends and then talk behind their back. Is that being a good person? I’ve started to curtail some of the talking behind people’s back because I know I don’t like it. It’s much more beneficial that way. In work politics it happens all the time. In those times I try to make sure my feelings are known to the people I’m complaining about. I feel like if I have an issue with how someone is acting I will express it to them no matter how uncomfortable they may feel. I’d rather do that than put on a smile and friendly face only to be stewing inside.