Stoic Week — Monday: Life
Today was quite an eventful and somewhat stressful day. There were good and bad parts of the day, which could have been worse or better depending on how I reacted to them. The day started out quite well, I was on time for everything even though I had to be in Cadet Uniform. I was quite neutral throughout the day, which is close in enough to being a stoic, you could say I was going with the flow and doing what I had to do and letting others do what they need to do. Philosophy class was quite interesting it got most of us thinking hard, it was a pity that Harvey wasn’t in class… My mood changed dramtically after the end of peroid 7, my friend had asked me why I hadn’t turned up to the recess and lunchtime training-I had completely forgotten about it). I was thinking to myself, i’ll face my problem like a responsible person should and that I would just go along with whatever happened. I didn’t really suceed. It was somewhat unfair that Cadets who had more than 3 awols were given more chances and that (having missed my first one leaving me on 2 more awols left) I was about to be kicked from the unit if I didn’t hand in leave at 8:00am tommorow. It was unfair and unjust to me, but there was nothing really that I could do, exept be a stoic. That’s just how life is I guess. There were many things that I could have done better, I could have respected the platoons needs for cadets turning up on time — we have a dress and drill competition on monday. I could also have been more patient and not gotten as angry or frustrated at what I labeled as unfair.

