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The Scariest Life Lesson in Stoicism
Special message to all writers who are suffering at this time.
I am a gambler in the great casino of life.
I am not satisfied with playing roulette once. I play again and again until my number comes up.
Losing is the only way I know how to win.
The Stoic philosophers taught me that.
And perhaps the scariest lesson of stoicism is “Memento Mori”: remember that you will die.
And that also applies to your personal and professional projects: "Remember that one day your relationships and projects will die.”
Nothing is forever.
That’s why, in this life, you have to keep spinning the roulette wheel over and over again, win or lose.
When you keep reminding others of who you were, it is because you are no longer anyone.
As my grandfather used to say, “He who talks a lot about his past has little future.”
And despite knowing that in this life, everything has a beginning and an end, few accept it.
As a result, they live obsessed with their former couples, with their past successes, with fantasies that prevent them…