You're Responsible for Yourself
The feeling you have isn't final. Just keep going. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
“Reflect on how many things have happened that you didn’t want, and yet they turned out for the best.” — Marcus Aurelius
If you’ve been a long term reader, you know I like putting stories in my essays for you to get a multidimensional perspective and firm grasp on the day’s lesson. Today is no different. The following is a beautiful story On Self Reliance as told in Aesop’s fables,
A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain.
The horses could hardly drag the load through the deep mud, and at last came to a standstill when one of the wheels sank to the hub in a rut.
The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon looking at it but without making the least effort to get it out of the rut.
All he did was to curse his bad luck and call loudly on Hercules to come to his aid.
Then, it is said, Hercules really did appear, saying: