"There has never been a great mind without some degree of madness."

• Seneca

"We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness."

• Seneca

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"The person you are matters more than the place to which you go; for that reason we should not make the mind a bondsman to any one place."

~ Seneca (Letter 28, On Travel as a Cure for Discontent)

I just took a trip to Italy! 🟩⬜🟥

And while a vacation could be a preferred indifferent, we need to remember why it's indifferent in the first place.

The purpose of a vacation shouldn't be to get away, shouldn't be to depart from where you are now because you unfavour the circumstances.

Our surroundings don't change us, we change us. It's not the environment that causes us to unfavour our circumstances, but our perspectives toward that environment.

So, naturally, people travel as a cure for discontent or restlessness. You're tired, you're not liking the view from your window, the traffic is getting to you, the people are getting to you and eventually, the bubble pops and you 'try to get away from it all...'

But then what?

After your week or month trip, you're back to those same circumstances.

The same circumstances that caused you to up and go in the first place. Now, there's two ways to work through this - and one is wrong. The first way is to constantly keep changing circumstances.

And this is wrong because you may not be able to, it might not be possible, you'll never be satisfied and always looking for more.

The second? Be content with the circumstances you're in.

A vacation shouldn't be used as a tool to get away, but simply as a means to sight-see, because where you are now is good enough.

A vacation shouldn't be used as a means to be content again, but simply as a means to experience new things, because contentment should come long before then.

P.S. If you like the writeup, I've also been making videos about Stoicism and philosophy in general for about a year - come check it out :) Betwixt Philosophy

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"If you wish to have leisure for your mind, either be a poor man, or resemble a poor man."

• Seneca

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today."

• Seneca

"In every good person, there lives a god. Which god? We cannot be sure - but it is a god."

• Seneca

"Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence."

• Marcus Aurelius

Time doesn’t rewind. Use it wisely.

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"Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best."

• Seneca

"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress."

• Epictetus

"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."

• Marcus Aurelius