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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

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.

This is the power you have. Life is hard. We face insurmountable odds with so many problems. We get bad news. We mess up.

We find out that what we wanted, what we deserve, what is fair is just not in the cards for us.

Think about Pete Freights. In his late 20s, he was hit by a pitch in an amateur lead baseball game at the doctor shortly thereafter. It was discovered that he had ALS.

Talk about crying stung by B, a sports injury uncovered a terminal diagnosis. That could have been the beginning of a sad story for Freights, but it wasn't.

Instead, he threw himself into raising money for ALS. The man upstairs has a plan for me. He said, this is the hand I've been dealt and I've made my peace with it.

There are people out there that don't have my support system or my advantages, and I want to help them.

And he did. With the ALS bucket challenge, he helped raise over $200 million. Pete Freights changed the trajectory of ALS forever and showed the world how to live with a fatal disease.

The ALS Association has said, even when he was paralyzed, real chair bound without the ability to talk and having to be fed through it too, he never stopped. Up until the end, he was not resigned. He fought. He helped.

He made a difference. He did not give into despair. He adapted and transformed his fate into something that mattered. His courage, his creativity, his commitment and models exactly what Marcus Aurelius wrote about in meditations.

Our inward power, he wrote, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces to what is possible.

It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims. As circumstances allow, it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms that which would have quenched a lamp, what's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it and makes it burn higher.

In December 2019, Pete Freights passed away at the age of 34. His battle lasted eight years, but the fire he started will keep burning, especially if you light a torch from it and use it to start your own.

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