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Stoic Loneliness
Stoic Loneliness
Here’s a man talking to himself, criticizing himself, berating himself. Clancy’s stops him and says:
“remember u’r not talking to a bad person”.
We had to remember that we’re not bad people and how we talk to ourselves matters.
friendships
or relationships
or connection
or love
One of the best ways to find community is around with thing u struggle to do by urself.
Mark Aurelius: “we’re like soldiers storming a wall so what if u slip and u have to ask a comrade for
help”
Collective a Community Driven organization we’re all coming together and u getting comfort from each
other as u do uncomfortable things together.
I need water
I need sunshine
Saying “I don’t think I know how to do something” < “I need help to do something”
“Men seek retreats for themselves – in the country, by the sea, in the hills – and you yourself are
particularly prone to this yearning. But all this is quite unphilosophic, when it is open to you, at any time
you want, to retreat into yourself.”
©Mark Aurelius
7. Go for a walk
Whatever u upset about, whatever u’re worried about, whatever is vexing ur mind or racing through it –
go for a walk, put the body in motion, let the mind relax for a minute.