The Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: Marcus Aurelius on the Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength
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“What happened could have happened to anyone, but not everyone could have carried on.”
MARCUS AURELIUS
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Since the dawn of our species, human nature has hardly changed. We are capable of inflicting pain on each other as well as capable of healing. Nowdays, human longing for sympathy, desire to have our suffering recognized and validate, is distorted by digital age. Comparitive validity and urge of broadcasting suffering has made the unlucky event a currency of attention and identification.
Why regard the incident as a piece of bad luck rather than seeing your avoidance of distress as a piece of good luck?
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