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Reminds me of Seneca: "However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact exte
by collin128 4y ago
Reminds me of Seneca:
"However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
- steve_adams_86 4y agoThough this tends to be true, once you become aware of it and begin to recalibrate your perception of what it means to have ability, possessions, fortune, any of it – it stops mattering nearly as much, and can often even go the other way. There are many people who are fortunate in material or circumstantial ways, but you see ways in which they’re enslaved by it or it somehow dictates their life. The classic “owned by what your own” paradigm which is eerily common in western culture. This can have the effect of making you feel fortunate for having less, rather than envious. I love Seneca. What I haven’t got a good grip on is time. On the Shortness of Life is a bit of a gut punch for me.