What are You so Afraid of Losing? (Day 357)

12/23/2019

You are afraid of dying. But, come now, how is this life of yours anything but death?”
Seneca, Moral Letters, 77.18

Most people, in varying degrees, are afraid of death and dying.

Why? What are afraid of losing? Hours of television watching? Eating excessively? Gossiping about others? Reporting daily to a job that holds no meaning? Wasting potential over and over again?

Is that what we’re afraid of losing? Is all that really worth the fear, or anxiety, or anguish we put ourselves through when it comes to death?

Doesn’t sound like it to me.

(See y’all tomorrow)

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Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind.
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Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove. He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace.

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