Massimo Pigliucci

This is not making my life better, but it has the potential to help with the relief effort.

And so that's what he did, right?

But he was not expecting the plague to just go away.

He said, we don't understand what a plague is in the first place.

We don't know what causes this thing.

We just have to run it out.

We just have to do our best in order to deal with it, and then it will go away at some point by itself.

So this was a situation where Marcus wrote in his journal something along the lines of, what can you do here?

Where can you make a difference?

And just as importantly, he kept repeating to himself that

In those areas where you couldn't do anything, it was okay.

You had to accept that.

This was not something that you want to lose your sleep over because, A, it doesn't help, and, B, if you lose your sleep over it, then you're actually going to be less efficacious in the kind of things you actually can do.

It has.

I am far less bothered by the issue these days.

I focus on what is under my control.

So when I go out for dinner, I try to stay away from things that I know are not good for me.

Minimize the damage, as my wife and I call it.

And then when I'm home, we have more control, of course, over what we eat.

As I said, I go and exercise on a regular basis, and I go to the doctor, and that's it.