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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage

of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas,

how we can apply them in our actual lives.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.

There are dreams that cannot be.

Marcus Aurelius certainly hoped his reign would be peaceful and prosperous,

as the fates had blessed his mentor Antoninus for 23 years.

Certainly, he dreamed of growing old with all his children around him.

Never would Seneca have asked for exile and loss for Nero's descent into cruelty.

Epic teetists like every child would have hoped for a life of fun and lightness.

Stockdale, as he left his family for a tour of Vietnam,

no doubt envisioned returning home unscathed as soon as possible.

But as the song goes, there are some dreams that cannot be.

Because fate, the world, it does not care much about what we want.

It does not care much about our plans.

It does not consider us at all.

The pandemic, the economy, the affair that broke up your marriage,

the car accident that shattered everything.

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