Category: Reminder to self

Remember to keep you the reading and writing and talking about the right topics. Don’t coast when things get easier.

Slept reasonably well, did the usual morning routine. (Seneca was a bit hard to follow, so maybe that means finding another version. Or maybe it’s just my head. Or where I am in the book.)

The family is happy. I am, to use the Words of Today’s World, in the moment. Massive tasks ahead yet I am calm.

Maybe struggling through Seneca helped. I keep in mind his life story and marvel. Up to now I have been mostly a Marcus Aurelius fanboy but Seneca’s work is growing on me. It’s my second reading of Letters, not counting random dives into the book from time to time.

I am writing this to remind myself, next time I’m in hell, that I have not always been in hell and there is a path out of hell. It is a fast path.

Remarkably little inner chatter, just did my work, was pleasant and friendly to those around me.

Maintenance pays off. But you have to do the work.

This note is here to remind me, the next time I’m in the grips of self-pity or some such bullshit, that it isn’t always like that and I can live the good life again, having done it before.