The point is not to make you passive. The point is not to make you weak. The point is not to make you quit.
No one would look at the life of Marcus Aurelius, an emperor and a warrior; or Epictetus, who came out of the other side of slavery and torture and tyranny; or Zeno, who bounced back after a shipwreck to found a philosophy that changed the world, and think they weak or passive. These Stoics—whose lives you can read about in Lives of the Stoics along with countless other Stoics who fought and endured and built things—were definitely not quitters.
But you know what they did have to do? Something that many of us remain quite bad at? They had to learn how to let go.
Zeno had to let go of his old life to step into his new one. Epictetus had to learn how to accept what was in his control and what wasn't, he had to let go of hope and fairness so that he might fight for many years simply to survive. Marcus Aurelius had to let go—far more than any person should have—of people he loved, of his dreams for how his reign was supposed to go, of his very natural desire to be liked and loved. He could not let the grief win. He had to lead through the disasters and tragedies. No one much cared for how he would have liked for things to go. No one much cares for the "feelings" of a public person when they criticize or attack them.
Acceptance is a part of life. Coming to terms with pain and setbacks and unfairness is critical to moving forward, to affecting change, to being a leader, to basic happiness. This is not the same as giving up. Letting go is not quitting, it is not weakness.
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