Welcome to another walk and talk. If you're watching, then I seem slimmer. It's because I am.

Let's see if I can keep it up. Here is the good news. Okay? The good news is that you are not alone.

Not with any of it. No matter how personal or unique you find your challenges, your questions,

your struggles, your travails, you are not alone. And this is not a fiasm pitch. As I say all the time,

you believe what works for you would help you be a better version of who you want to be and how

you want to treat people. Keeps you from hurting other people. If it's good with that, it's good

with me. That's for sure. Tell me about it because that would be great. So you are not alone,

meaning that the human condition has always been pretty much the way it is now for all the advancements,

for all the evolution, all the technology, as far as society has come,

the struggles are so familiar over the ages. I was reading about these like

abstract dialogues and treatises and debates between different types of schools of philosophy.

And a lot of it is like not worth your time. But in some of the hangiographies, the

writings about the lives of saints and people who are seen as huge figures, even back 300, 40, 500,

and what we used to call A.D. We now call the C.E. The Common Era. They were talking about the same

things that we are today. Pride, wrath, envy, greed, gluttony, lust and sloth. Those are the seven

deadly sins right before the Catholic Church attitude. And they were struggling with them back then.

Lost the need for sex, what is wealth. And just like today, all the conveniences, all the opulence

that is available if you're not restricted from it by ambition or socioeconomics or disability or

whatever, the question was still the same. Want versus need. How do you live a life that is besting

keeping with the values or virtues or divinity that inspire you? Same things. What is love and how to

love? To be loved. The need for community. How to be a good person. What that looks like.

I mean, from the stoics, to the cynics, to Hellenistic or ancient Greek philosophy,

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