Marcus Aurelius on Resilience
Sometimes we have weeks in which daily experiences seem to conspire to keep us off balance and out of sync. These circumstances push us away from our natural character, away from the person we wish to be.
Sometimes we have weeks in which daily experiences seem to conspire to keep us off balance and out of sync. These circumstances push us away from our natural character, away from the person we wish to be.
It is important for each of us to create our own doctrine on living, to discover for ourselves the ingredients for obtaining vitality and happiness. We cull information over time and file into a loose manifest on achieving the life we desire, changing it along the way as new experiences and data present themselves.
Your mindset will determine your success. Do you believe you have set skills, intelligence, and talents, or do you believe you can improve in these areas through effort and learning?
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment. — Andrew Solomon
I believed I was on a quest for happiness. My search was both rigorous and exhaustive.
I don’t know much about the underlining causes or triggers of depression — the science. I do know how it’s effected me, how it’s effected friends, and how it’s effected recently named and the nameless strangers that face it’s challenges daily. I know it is darkness. I know it is isolation and disconnection. I know…
Standing on the pier I watch the surfers ride away the night and invite the day.
What I’ve been missing in the pursuit toward realizing happiness and fulfillment is hard work.
I’ve had several injuries over the years; sprained ankles, IT band issues, hamstring tear, sciatic nerve issues, torn ligaments in the shoulder.