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You can't escape this. A flat tire and extra fee tacked on to a hotel bill, a cracked screen on your phone, a bike stolen from your garage, a large charge they won't refund, a deal blown up by a missed email.

Nobody likes these things, but does anyone think that a life without them is possible?

No, of course not. We understand that sometimes you get ripped off. Sometimes you make mistakes. Sometimes stuff falls apart on the one yard line.

Okay, then why are you so upset? You know that it's a statistical certainty of basic fact of life.

Yet here you are cursing as if it's unfair,

as if you've been singled out, instead of just accepting it,

instead of just saying to yourself,

as Marcus Rialis tried to say of shameless people who he also

believed were a statistical inevitability. He said okay so this is one of those people.

Don't ask for the impossible he said don't get upset that someone who was

bound to exist exists or that something that was bound to happen has happened. We can't escape it.

We can only accept it and be grateful that it's rarer than it could be. Hey Prime members you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and add free on Amazon music.

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