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We find ourselves baffled by our politicians, by our bosses, by our leaders.

Why don't they do something? Why don't they just do the right thing? Why are they always putting profits over people?

Why do they always hedge their bets? You say this as you sit there in a job you've hated for the last five years. You say this when you avoid talking politics with your family because it's unpleasant. You say this when you make all sorts of compromises and tradeoffs that you know are not right. You say this while you're wearing clothes made in a sweatshop. pay your employees less than you could afford to,

travel to countries with horrible human rights records, drive cars that are horrible for the

environment. It's not that you're a bad person, it's that you have a reason for all those things.

We all do. We have a million reasons. Then we like to direct a very pointed, very black and white

accusing finger and everyone else who dares to do the same.

Marcus Aurelius reminds us that what other people do and say is not important,

or rather it's not as important as what we do and we say.

What do we have control over?

Those politicians thousands of miles away who are just barely interested in our votes?

Or our own decisions and actions on a day-to-day basis.

Don't waste your time in vain against the hypocrisy of others.

Start with the hypocrisy in your own home because there's plenty of it there.

What are you doing today, tomorrow?

What injustices are you resolving in your own life?

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