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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 DailyStoic.com.

You must think the thing you cannot think. It's fitting that one of the most important things you could do as a parent would require you to think about a thing that's very nearly impossible for a parent to even consider.

It comes to us from Marcus Aurelius by way of Epictetus.

As you kiss your son goodnight, says Epictetus, whisper it to yourself. He may be dead in the morning. Don't tempt fate you say by talking about a natural event is fate tempted when we speak of grain being reaped? No one wants to think this way.

You want to think only good things about your kids. Damn these philosophers and their silly academic exercises. Except that's not what this is. Marcus Aurelius wasn't speaking flippantly. He lost five children.

Five. Seneca we gathered lost one early as well. It should never happen, but it does. It heart-breakingly world reckingly nobody deserves it does.

The power of thinking about this unthinkable thing is not morbidity. It has a purpose. A parent who faces the fact that they can lose a child at any moment is a parent who dares not waste a moment.

A wise parent looks at the cruel world and says, I know you can do to my family in the future, but for the moment you have spared me, I will not take that for granted.

That's what you must do about your children, about your wealth, about peace in your nation, about the fair, whether. It can all go away in a second. There's nothing we can do about that.

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