Ronnie Nurss

I’m currently studying the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the Hays Translation. 

“We cannot step twice into the same river” - Heraclitus

Marcus expands on this… “Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried passed us, and another follows and is gone.”  (4.43 in Hays)

 Its amazing at how I can relate those 2 writings to everything in my life.  There is always the “would of, could of, should of”’s in life, and its a bunch of bullshit.  The chances are high that you wont get what you want if you have to ask yourself “Should I?”, or “What would happen if…” and the worst…. “I could of have done that but…”.

Most people tend to view events, situations, and decisions with the wrong mentality.  They are quick to label anything in life as “bad” or ”good”, and mostly its decided on pure emotion at the time.  Stoicism, also read in Meditations, states that one thing is neither good or evil.  “… not objects or events, but the intrepretations we place on them are the problem.”

 Regulate your weak and negative interpretations and perceptions on events and decisions you experience to avoid facing regret and to get what you want in your life.

So when your faced with any event or decision in life, tackle it with the right interpretation or perception, and then act. If you dont act, you will lose out to opportunities flowing by you.  Similar to what Ryan Holiday says, if you dont define yourself, or in this case, your life, then others gladly will.  Because you will only get one shot, one chance, one  glimpse, before time passes you by.

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