Wiser men than I.
I should refresh myself with Stoic wisdom more often ... lessons I relearn often come at a terrible price, and constant study and examination of my decisions would free up much emotional currency.
"Permit nothing to cleave to you that is not your own; nothing to grow to you that may give you agony when it is torn away." If I'd bothered to reread Epictetus when I had so much time over a year ago, I would have remembered that ... but would it have made a difference? Marcus Aurelius often reminds us that everything is temporary. Perhaps that is how to love and lose well ... keeping both ideas in mind.
I see her again Friday. I am excited. I got an email from her apologizing for not being able to see me on weekdays - it's only temporary until she wins this fitness competition she's doing that causes her to hit the gym twice a day. But damned if she doesn't look good.
I'm probably going to join LoPrinzi's soon and start doing 5x5 three days a week after work to bulk up and get smaller around the middle, and after a bit start hitting the boxing club the other two days. It makes sense, I hate gyms, so dull - but 5x5 is only an hour, no machines, and then the other two days I get to glove up and pound on various objects and people for fun.
"Permit nothing to cleave to you that is not your own; nothing to grow to you that may give you agony when it is torn away." If I'd bothered to reread Epictetus when I had so much time over a year ago, I would have remembered that ... but would it have made a difference? Marcus Aurelius often reminds us that everything is temporary. Perhaps that is how to love and lose well ... keeping both ideas in mind.
I see her again Friday. I am excited. I got an email from her apologizing for not being able to see me on weekdays - it's only temporary until she wins this fitness competition she's doing that causes her to hit the gym twice a day. But damned if she doesn't look good.
I'm probably going to join LoPrinzi's soon and start doing 5x5 three days a week after work to bulk up and get smaller around the middle, and after a bit start hitting the boxing club the other two days. It makes sense, I hate gyms, so dull - but 5x5 is only an hour, no machines, and then the other two days I get to glove up and pound on various objects and people for fun.