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A MEDITATION

“ How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 4.18

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A reflection

Scrolling through other people's lives is a tax on your own. Every minute spent tracking the colleague's promotion or the cousin's vacation is a minute subtracted from actual living. Marcus would have thrived without Instagram — and so would you.

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