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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

Each of us has a job to do. The world is constantly grappling with vexing problems. This was true in the times of Zeno and Marcus Aurelius just as it's true today.

Big and small, immediate and on the looming horizon, we have always been in crisis from wars to plagues, to civil unrest, to natural disasters.

It is the story of human life on this planet. It is the story of history, as we've said. Things keep happening. Things keep going wrong.

They always have. They always will. Provided that is. That we keep solving them and keep surviving.

Today, we find ourselves in the teeth of a global pandemic, one with the mortality rate close to the Antonine plague that killed millions of people during Marcus Aurelius' reign.

Our medical efforts are running behind. Our supply chains are overtaxed. The cowardice and incompetence of many governments are rather the heads of many governments since the responsibility falls on the leader, whether they accept it or not, has been laid there.

So what do we do? We must pull together as humans have for centuries. As since the NADIS was called from his fields to save Rome, as citizens were called to plant victory gardens in the Second World War, as activists and ordinary people rose up to give women the right to vote and civil rights to all people, as the free world rose up collectively to roll back the tide of Soviet aggression in arms and in finance.

So too, are we being called again? Whether you're a senator or stalking shelves in a warehouse, each of us has an important job to do, especially at a moment like this.

The Stoads believe that each of us was important, that each person focusing on what they could control would be able to collectively to turn the tide of history.

Marcus really has wrote that even people asleep, even the shameless and the terrible were part of the equation, even those incompetent leaders are helping to wake us up and remind people that we have to save ourselves.

That's what Sympathia is really about, that we are this large hole, each of us rich and poor educated or not is important. Each of us can make a difference by keeping our families safe, by making smart decisions, by helping our neighbors, by voting, by keeping calm, by bringing our network to bear on problems, by sacrificing, by taking care of our health and listening to instructions, by delivering the mail or treating patients or investing in the market, whatever our job happens to be.

Do your job, do it with courage, temperance, justice and wisdom, come together with the team and we'll get through this.

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