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A True Story About How Stoicism Saved a Prisoner of War: Tips for Your Own Life
- stanrivers 6y ago> No, "station in life" can be changed from that of a dignified and competent gentleman of culture to that of a panic-stricken, sobbing, self-loathing wreck, maybe a permanent wreck if you have no will, in less than an hour. So what? So after you work a lifetime to get yourself all set up, and then delude Yourself into thinking that YOU have some kind of ownership claim on Your station in life, you're riding for a fall. You're asking for disappointment. That’s a painfully real realization. You can build up a solid life and you are just one disease diagnosis, one mistake made by another drive, from losing it all. Not sure what to do with that, but it seems true.