The Daily Stoic - You're On Your Own, Kid
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient
wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life.
Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided
some of history's greatest men and women.
For more, you can visit us, dailystoke.com. You're on your own, kid.
There are moments when we feel more alone, of course, after the divorce, when we head
off to school for the first time, when we strike out on our own, start working for ourselves,
when we do something that people don't understand that engenders criticism. We realize we're on our own,
that we have to blow our own nose, as Epictetus said,
that we'll have to be our own savior while we can,
as Mark Sturulius wrote.
No one but us can solve our problems.
No one but us can manage our emotions.
We only control what we control.
We can only demand the best from ourselves.
But this is not new.
You've always been on your own,
as Taylor Swift put it, and you always will be.
You can instead let these moments
when we feel more alone serve as reminders
that we have the tools to change,
that we only get to choose how we react,
that we evolve into whomever we want to be.
Because what do you have to lose?
You are already on your own, kid,
and no one can take you away from you.
Only you can do that.