Can You Imagine?
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🗓️ 30 April 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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We are all fighting our own battles, we are all besieged by misfortune in our own ways.
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| 0:14.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:20.5 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:27.7 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy |
| 0:31.6 | that has guided some of history's greatest men and women |
| 0:36.2 | to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
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| 1:05.7 | Can you imagine? He was powerful, he was wise, he was important. He was not spared. |
| 1:11.9 | In 147 AD, Marcus Aurelius welcomed the birth of his firstborn, a daughter named Domitia. |
| 1:18.8 | He would bury her within a few short years. |
| 1:22.1 | In 149, Marcus Aurelius and his wife had twin sons. |
| 1:26.1 | They would both die in infancy. And sadly, this was the rule |
| 1:30.4 | and not the exception for Marcus. He would end up burying the majority of his children. Can you imagine? |
| 1:38.2 | The pain, the hammer blows of one tragedy after another. There's no way he didn't stagger |
| 1:43.2 | under the weight of it all. His hair would |
| 1:45.6 | have turned gray, his shoulders would have stooped. He would have stared off in the distance. He would |
| 1:50.7 | have, as we know he did, broken down in tears at the mention of loss or memories. And nor would |
| 1:57.9 | his story have been particularly unique in Rome. Infant mortality was high. Life was |
| 2:02.8 | unpredictable and cruel. But the world is not all that different today. We are all fighting our own |
| 2:09.2 | battles. We are all besieged by misfortune in our own ways. Marcus Aurelius' story should inspire |
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