"...Is This Necessary?" - Marcus Aurelius

 

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Lately, I have been reading up about Stoicism a lot. An authority who automatically comes up when you search about Stoicism is a guy by the name of Ryan Holiday.



A principle that I want to share with you all this week is a concept called “non-reactivity”.


All of us experience a plethora of emotions daily, and sometimes we let this determine our actions. The negative thing about this is usually our emotions don’t portray the objective truth in all situations… so you might end up reacting or making decisions that would not be the best for your higher self in the longer term.


How this applied to me this week: my sister drove into my new car and scratched the bumper (see picture). Now, my emotional self did surge up and get really angry by this, wanting to swear at her and tell her off. But, then I remembered: non-reactivity.

I stepped away from the situation and let my emotions die down. Then I thought… would it even be necessary to be upset about this? What can I change about the situation? It happened, so what?


Okay, it will be expensive to fix but that is another day’s problem. For now, I am making an active decision that my inner peace will not be disturbed.


The goal would be to be like this in every aspect of life… Work, home and with your friends.

Prioritise non-reactivity.


Thanks for reading. See you next week :).

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