Better Days Will Shine Through | What Can Go Wrong… Might
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“Imagine you are Seneca and tuberculosis has claimed ten years of your life in convalescence. Imagine you are Seneca and after climbing to the top of Roman life, you were cruelly exiled to some rock in the middle of nowhere.”
Ryan explains how Fortune behaves as she pleases–what she gives she takes away, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.0 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.7 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.8 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.2 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.4 | These are better days shining through |
| 0:44.8 | Imagine you are Seneca and tuberculosis has claimed ten years of your life in convulsions |
| 0:51.0 | Imagine you are Seneca and after climbing to the top of Roman life |
| 0:55.6 | You are truly exiled to some rock in the middle of nowhere at each of these desperate painful moments when it seemed like |
| 1:03.6 | All was lost when the sky was dark and the light had vanished forever |
| 1:07.5 | Do you know what happened? |
| 1:09.5 | Eventually and perceptively and suddenly better days shown through as Bruce Springsteen sings |
| 1:16.7 | That's what happens. We're down and out exhausted our ass dragon listening to the hours and minutes ticking away |
| 1:24.3 | While it's all slipping away and then boom those better days shine through |
| 1:30.5 | That's how it went for Seneca and it's how it will go for you |
| 1:33.9 | No one can say when no one can say in what form it will happen, but it will |
| 1:40.0 | Fortune behaves as she pleases what she gives she takes away |
| 1:44.1 | But she eventually gives again. It's just how it works |
| 1:48.1 | You just have to hold on you just have to be ready as Seneca was not just once and twice and even the third time when |
| 1:56.1 | Neuros goons came to finish him off |
| 1:58.5 | Even then he chose to seize the opportunity fate had presented to him and gave us his greatest performance and then moved on from this life |
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