Ryan Holiday

Something happened, he writes.

Good.

It was meant for you by nature, he said, woven into the pattern from the beginning.

Instead of lamenting it, instead of fighting it, instead of wondering why it went this way instead of that way, he's saying we have to embrace it.

See it as something happening for you and not to you.

Life is short, he writes.

That's all there is to say.

So try to be a good person.

Try to do good, to do the right thing.

Don't waste time complaining.

Don't waste time wishing or hoping.

Remember, he says, it was woven into the pattern from the beginning.

So get to work.

That's actually what we've been talking about all month here.

This is Meditations Month at Daily Stoic.

This is the month Mark Strelitz was born.

So we just kind of do this deep dive into meditations.

And we're kind of doing a book club about meditations, which I'd love to have you join.

If you haven't read meditations, you don't know where to start, or maybe you read it, you put it down, you didn't totally get it.

I think this would be an awesome place to start.