Tom Junod
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And I never saw it coming.
You know, just try to, you know... Do you think that's true?
I do.
Yeah.
I do.
You know, because I think that in my life...
I made two vows, one to myself, articulated, and one to myself, just in my bones and in my cells.
And the one that I articulated to myself is, I am never going to be like him.
And the one that I couldn't articulate to myself is like, I want nothing more than to be like him.
And so, you know, I've had to balance those things.
It's the north and south.
It is.
It's the north and south.
Yeah.
And so, you know, and this is where I think where stoicism really comes in here.
And I got to say that, you know, reading Marcus Aurelius over the last week has given me sort of like a new kind of self-talk.
It's given me a language in which to address these things.
I'm not bullshitting you on that.