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This is the part to love. It seems crazy.

It seems insensitive to even suggest that someone loved their fate.

How are you supposed to love a breakup?

Love that you buried someone.

Love that you lost your business.

Love that you got robbed. Love that accident. Love political dysfunction or even persecution. Well, we can clear that up right now.

The Stoics didn't love the fire that swept through Rome. They didn't love the betrayals and the

backstabbing. They did not love funerals or cancer or losing an election. They did not love the

plague.

That's silly.

No, what they loved was what this demanded of them.

They loved the opportunity for virtue and erete that disasters and troubles and setbacks and loss presents us.

The part they embraced was not the loss.

The part they embraced was what it gave them, a chance to be there for others. A chance to grow. A chance to throw themselves into rebuilding. A chance to start over. A chance to be courageous and decent and kind. That is the part we love. We love that it gives us more of ourselves, that this experience, however unfair,

however painful, however avoidable it is, can unlock something within us. That if we do our work,

if we hold true, we can emerge better than before, that we can make things better for others.

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