“Tell me more about yourself?”; “Who are you?”; “Describe yourself in three words?” Whenever someone asks me any of these questions, my palms get sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy… haha no, but on a serious note though my mind always goes blank and I never know what to say because I don’t think I…
Tag: stoicism
Stoic Bites: Seneca the Younger (#02)
The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) Seneca was a Roman stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. His late writings are a strong pillar and laid the foundational knowledge of ancient stoicism. In one of Seneca’s most famous essays ” On the Shortness of Life” Seneca emphasizes the…
A Quarter life crisis and a book about existentialism. (Day 2 of 21 days of quarantine)
I think I’m having a quarter life crisis. Or maybe just an existential one. Or is it the same thing? I don’t know! I’m at this weird impasse that humanity before, now and in the future has and will come too which is trying to figure out the meaning of life. For the longest time…
Stoicism and the art of not giving a hoot
As cheesy as this will sound, I didn’t actively search for stoic philosophy, it found me. If you’re a baby boomer reading this then the next part might be triggering but as a millennial I can honestly admit that I wasn’t fully prepared for the whirlwind that is adulting, entering the work force and just…
Shades of Selma 