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Have you considered this?

One of the most remarkable and revealing criticisms of Marcus to realize his meditations is that it's repetitive.

Marcus talks about death, a lot.

Talks about fame, a lot.

It talks about the weight of being the leader of an empire a lot.

So yeah, some people ask why is it so repetitive? To which the reply is pretty obvious. That's because

the book is not for you. It seems to escape people that the most powerful man in the world was not

writing meditations, whose title in Greek is to himself, was not

thinking about them when he wrote it. No, he was thinking about what he needed. And when you

realize this, it helps you not only appreciate meditations as a unique work of literature,

but it should help you be a little more accepting and tolerant of other things you don't like.

That comedian that you don't

think is funny, has it occurred to you that perhaps they don't think of you as their audience?

That author whose books have never appealed to you, maybe she wasn't writing it for you.

That new movie that came out last week that you refused to see, what if the director never

intended for someone like you to enjoy it? We have this

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