what do you mean you don't have time to be someone you admire? "if circumstances were different" is one of the biggest lies you can sell yourself. if you want to change, modify your environment and retool your system. the problem with stoicism isn't the philosophy itself, but the rampant commodification of a lone ruler's anxious thoughts. but he wasn't alone- these tubers and debt millionaires won't tell you. he had a beautiful wife and children worth suffering for that made all the difference. the space itself has been so radicalized that what was once a diary of a mortal's earthly burdens of being has become an entire industry of suffering cucks that love pain without pleasure's purpose. they think toiling alone is brave. that's the last thing anyone truly alone really thinks. so anticipation waiting drains participation and progress over prudence any fuckin' day.