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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

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The Most Temporary in Illusory State. On April 14, 1912, William John Rogers sent a postcard from the Titanic to his friend James Day.

Dear friends, Rogers wrote, just in line to show that I am alive and kicking and going grand. It's a treat.

The next day, the Titanic sank. Rogers, a third class passenger from Wales went down with the ship. His body never identified.

The astronomer and philosopher Carl Sagan kept a copy of this postcard on his bathroom mirror so that he could see it every morning when he shaved.

My wife and I display the postcard for a reason, he wrote, we know that we know that going grand can be the most temporary and illusory state.

The Stoics believe this too. Sennaq had just begun his promising lock-arrier when a lung flare up forced him into isolation for nearly a decade.

Then after he returned and successfully rebuilt his life, he was exiled to an island off the coast of Italy.

Mark is suggest return home victoriously when the Antonine plague broke out.

Epictetus had just been made free as school had just gained a following when he was driven into exile.

Moments are torn from us, Sennaq wrote, the whole future lies in uncertainty.

Fortune behaves as she pleases, he wrote, and we've talked about this a few times.

Now life comes at you fast. It doesn't rhyme, doesn't reason, doesn't care about your wants or needs. It just is.

All we can do is accept the uncertainty of all of it and heed Sennaq's command. Live immediately and be prepared.

Anger is bad fuel. And I'm reading to you today from the Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom Perseverance in the Art of Living by yours truly.

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