The Daily Stoic - Every Single Day Is the Same

Episode Date: September 3, 2020

"As the pandemic has dragged on, you’ve probably found yourself asking one question, over and over again, to anyone who will listen—even to yourself: What day is it?  It’s a simple question, but also a very revealing one."Ryan explains why the days seem to be blending together, and the Stoic insights that can help you make sense of this phenomenon, in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. Every single day is the same. As the pandemic has dragged on, you've probably found yourself asking one question over and over again to anyone who will listen even to yourself. It's a simple but essential one. What day is it?

With less travel with no meetings, and for many of us not even a commute to work time in place seemed to have slowed down or merged. The week and weekend blur, the hours both drag and go by in an instant. All is one. We're like that character in the new movie Palm Springs, trapped in some sort of space continuum

Where every day is the same day on repeat and while this may seem miserable You may also find yourself coming to almost enjoy it as the other character in that movie did is it really so bad to Spend all this time with your family is it really so bad to live a quieter, slower life? Yes, it is costing you money. It's canceling your plans. Is it really so bad to live a quieter, slower life? Yes, it is costing you money, it's canceling your plans, it's disrupting so much, and yet all things that go on long enough with time even this distress has become muted, even pleasant. Perhaps it was this very feeling that Marcus Arellius was referring to in meditations as he reflected on both the current moment going through a plague and the decades of his youth waiting to become emperor. Everything has always been the same he said and keeps recurring. It makes no difference whether you see the same thing. The present is all that they can give up

since that is all that you have and what you do not have, you cannot lose. Marcus talked about how it didn't matter whether you lived to be 40 or 400 every day was the same, it was all the same in the end. So yes, this whole thing is strange and surreal. It's at times terrifying and not without its heart breaks. But it also just is. Each day we wake up and face another whether it will mark our 90th day in

quarantine or the start of 90 more, who can say? And what does it matter? Today is what's in front of us whatever day of the week. It happens to be, it can be wonderful. It can be enough if we choose. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast. You can sign up to get our daily email at dailystoke.com slash email. I also encourage if you want to take your practice of stoicism to the next level, to sign up for Daily Stoke Life, which is our members only program. It's got all sorts of awesome benefits. You can check that out at dailystiliclife.com. you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. Is this thing all?

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