What If We Don’t Have to Worry About the Future?

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I’ve found myself worrying about the future a lot recently, to the extent that it crippled my present. That’s because we all operate from a basis of hope and strength, and when that hope falters, it becomes much harder to get anything done.

But then I read this quote from the Roman emperor and stoic Marcus Aurelius:

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason that today arm you against the present.

The essence of these words that the emperor saw fit to add to his journal is trust and hope. The trust in our strength to overcome and the active hope required to fuel this trust.