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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystood.com.

Build a life you aren't trying to flee. Of course, it's lovely to take a vacation, it's

lovely to go cool places, even on the weekend it's lovely to go places and do things we can't

do during the week. But Seneca tells us to be careful. He quotes Lucretius, who said

that thus each man flees himself, but then Seneca elaborates. But to what end if he does not

escape himself, he pursues and dogs himself as his most tedious companion, and we must

realize that our difficulty is not the fault of the places but of ourselves. We all seem

to be traveling from one destination to the next, even when we arrive at our destination.

At lunch on vacation, we're making plans for dinner. At one tourist attraction, we're

excited for the next one. On the beach, we look forward to the pool, and in the pool,

we look forward to tomorrow's day at the beach. We, Seneca writes, make one journey after

another and change spectacle for spectacle. Be wary of the urge to be constantly on the

move. As the Stoic say, you will not find what you are looking for, happiness, joy,

serenity, peace, fulfillment in these externals or in these external places. You can only find

it internally because you can't flee yourself. You have to build a life, a self, that you

don't want to escape from.

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