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A Year of Contemplation

You Hold the Trump Card (Day 271)

9/28/2019

 
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Image by Veronica Dearly

​A dear friend of mine posted the above photo, and well… I just disagree. One THOUSAND percent - disagree. Attitudes like this empower identity sickness, and ME-ist behaviors. Political prisoners throughout time, across the world will all say how it IS their attitude that kept them sane, that kept them as whole as possible, and how they CHOSE to live even in hellacious circumstances meant that while their bodies were imprisoned, their hearts and minds could NEVER be. 
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​The fact that one’s ace-up-the-sleeve is to choose how to respond to things beyond our control shows that the author of the meme, perhaps, has no idea of how they CHOSE to see the meme before altering it. By creating the meme above, the author shows us how over-individuation and identity sickness is used to warp what would otherwise be solid guidance. The author CHOSE to take the nearly two-thousand year old Stoic wisdom and pervert it into “sanctimony”. 

Life is FAR less complex than we make it, and frankly, it IS because of our attitudes and woe-is-me internal dialogues that differences are made between “good” days and “bad” days. So, I’m CHOOSING to not let this meme ruin my day. I’m CHOOSING to receive all things as blessings, and give to all in the spirit of grace. 

​​I’m CHOOSING to use my wild card, my ace-in-the-hole, my trump card to rise above and not allow things beyond my control to turn me from a strong, flexible person into someone who is a passenger of life, and a servant to things beyond control. 

I choose when to play my wild card, and HOW it gets played...

​... and so must you. 

(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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