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For if one’s dependent on them, their
happiness and peace in life are susceptible to
being inconsistent, taken, or never achieved at
all. In letters from a Stoic, Seneca discusses

of how to properly handle one’s time and
achieve meaningful experiences. When
referring to time, Seneca writes, “I advise you

to keep what is really yours, and you cannot
begin too early. For as our ancestors believed,
it is too late to spare when you reach the
dregs of the cask of which remains at the
bottom, the amount is slight, and the quality

is vile”. Stoic philosophy changed over time
shifting focus from logic and physics to more
psychological concerns like tranquility and Choose your philosophy that you want to

well-being. “Waste no more time arguing make it your reference in life. It is great how
what a good man should be. Be one”-Marcus we have the ability of understanding and
Aurelius. One of the other Stoicism pioneers studying others’ thoughts and it is greater that
is Epictetus, who said: “The chief task in life we try to implement it in our daily life. I
is simply this: to identify and separate matters believe that we need the philosophy of the

so that I can say clearly to myself which are Stoics these days, as we barely enjoy the
externals are not under my control. Where experience of living a GOOD life, we might
then do I look for good and evil? Not to just be focusing on power, having more, fame,

uncontrollable externals, but within myself to or wealth as I mentioned above, and as I
the choices that are my own”. And so, we believe that the time we are found to be
must define our happiness not by what we present in asks you to search for those things,
own or achieve, not by how others see us, not but I see that our mere goal in life is to
by some bigger picture of life, but by how we experience it, and see the outcomes that will

think and see our self and live our own life be produced, which we have no control over,
through what we deem virtuous and relevant. and deal with it with a modern mindset that
Stoicism tells us that we can at last, if we keeps us pushing more and widening our

wish, calmly accept the conditions of our perspectives. It is great how can a single
indifferent reality, and one up it with our own thought of a human being affect the thoughts
indifferent attitude, in return. Stoicism is a of many more other human beings and in
philosophy as many other philosophies, and different generations with different contexts.
we can always learn something from them.
Humans are the same but just it is the place
and time that gives us brand new challenges.

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Vol.1, Issue 40, February 2022
Vol.1, Issue 40, February 2022