{"id":1832,"date":"2024-04-01T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T23:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2024-04-01T16:59:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T23:59:51","slug":"dont-let-the-drama-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/04\/01\/dont-let-the-drama-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let the Drama In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
“Drama, combat, terror, numbness, and subservience \u2014 every day these things wipe out your sacred principles, whenever your mind entertains them uncritically or lets them slip in.”<\/p>MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS<\/em>, 10.9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
We have our own challenges raging inside of us. The battle rages every day in our mind, as we struggle to maintain control over our thoughts and emotions, and as we try to understand the difference between what we can control and what we can’t. Life comes at us fast. We have plenty of our own <\/em>drama. It’s hard enough as it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then come lovers, bosses, and friends \u2014 with their drama<\/em>. And of course they want to share it with us, and they want us to weigh in. They want to make their drama into ours, and they want us to tell them what they should do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On top of that, we’re exposed to more worries and angst on the nightly news. And we read about celebrity-this and famous-person-that who has their personal conflict and drama. And we shouldn’t care, but still we read about it, and wonder about it. As if we aren’t already drowning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n