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A MEDITATION

“ We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

Letters from a Stoic 13

On adversity

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A reflection

The presentation you dreaded went fine. The conversation you rehearsed a hundred times lasted three minutes. Most of our pain is rehearsal — playing out futures that never arrive. Seneca's point is that anxiety is a debt you pay on a loan that's usually never called in.

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