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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 the 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 DailyStoic.com.

Time doesn't make everything better. It just makes them what they are. When we get dumped or we fail or we lose someone, we often hear that time heals all wounds or some such remark.

It's a great work. All of it in consolation. Obviously, this is meant well, but it's also frustrating, if only because it's trite and way too simple.

As Reelky wrote, time does not console, as people say superficially, at best it puts things in their place and creates order.

There is a Zen story about a man whose horse ran away. People said it was bad luck. Then the horse came back, which people said was good luck.

Then his son broke his leg while falling off of it, and people thought that was bad luck, come round again. But because the man's leg was broken, his son was saved from fighting and dying in a war.

Time doesn't make things better or worse. It simply makes them what they are. That's why the Stoke's talk about not rushing to judgment about anything, about waiting and seeing.

As we don't know, just giving something time is an automatically going to make it better, but it does at least give it a chance to shake out for us to see the full picture.

If there is one aphorism about time that we can rely on, that the Stoke's would agree with, it's that time will tell.

That's the moral of the Zen story too. Trying to label things as good luck or bad luck is short-sighted. It assumes that all the facts have been entered into evidence.

It's better to hold off on forming an opinion because fate is constantly unfolding around us. And today's bad luck may very well be setting up tomorrow's good luck and vice versa.

Time isn't a panacea, but it is a form of truth. So watch for it. Time will, in fact, tell.

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