VI. Take Charge
It's not enough to lose your self-esteem over worldly goods oscillating back and forth into your life whenever fate pleases.
"If we limited "good" and "bad" to our own actions, we'd have no call to challenge God, or to treat other people as enemies." — Marcus Aurelius
You feel desolate and crushed that nothing is going your way.
You feel like crying.
Social media keeps showing you people celebrating their wins.
You feel happy for them but there's a tinge of envy behind the facade.
When will your time come? Why not you? When will you catch a break? You ask yourself.
It seems the gods only serve you endless bad luck and suffering on a silver platter.
But look,
"It's normal...for a human being to feel stress — if he's living a normal human life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?" — Marcus Aurelius
Albert Camus suggests a rebellious idea in his book The Myth of Sisyphus about the human condemned by the gods to keep rolling a stone uphill only to see it reel back down ad nauseam.
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Own it. What you feel is expected as long as you’re alive.
So wha…
