Why Is This So Unbearable

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“Do not let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Do not try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand, and ask, ‘Why is this so unbearable? Why can I not endure it?’ You will be embarrassed to answer. Then remind yourself that past and future have no power over you. Only the present, and even that can be minimized. Just mark off its limits. And if your mind tries to claim that it cannot hold out against that … well, then, heap shame upon it.” — Marcus Aurelius

Life will get after us
Things will get in the way
People will obstruct
Time itself will seem the enemy.

We are here
What else is to be done but this.

We can be nowhere but here
So be here
Now
Fully.

Let go of the inner complaints
Certainly do not let them out
Lead ourselves as we would want to be led.

Choose to do the thing without the misery
Choose to be master of ourselves
Thoughts
Words
Emotions
Actions.

We have a choice in this.