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Philosophy & Stoicism
The Glass Is Already Broken
3 Lessons On Attachment: Spiders, Outcomes, & Things
The Spiderweb
On average, it takes 30 to 60 minutes for a spider to weave a web. Even though spiderwebs are robust, they don't' always last very long. They are constantly getting damaged by Mother Nature or people (who walk or run right through them). Some spiders build new webs every day.
Attachment to Outcomes
Devastation — that feeling that we’re absolutely crushed and shocked by an event — is a factor of how unlikely we considered that event in the first place. No one is wrecked by the fact that it’s snowing in the winter, because we’ve accepted (and even anticipated) this turn of events. What about the occurrences that surprise us? We might not be so shocked if we took the time to consider their possibility. — The Daily Stoic, p 147
A young woman recently died and left her two kids in the care of her older sister. The surviving sister is…
