It's a lot. Culture has changed. Technology has changed. Work has changed. Politics have changed. The environment has changed.
We are having trouble navigating these changes, living with these changes that we didn't ask for. You know whose fault it is. You think these changes could have been prevented. Yet what you're forgetting is that this is how it's always been. Nothing has changed at all, you can imagine Marcus Aurelius reminding us, because change is the constant from his time to ours.
Indeed, can you think of a time in history when culture was not changing? When technology wasn't disrupting things? When the economy wasn't shifting? When politicians weren't coming and going from office, when policies weren't falling in and out of favor? When the world around us wasn't in crisis—whether it was from storms or man-made causes?
In fact, you wouldn't be here right now if it weren't for those changes, as Marcus Aurelius really does point out in Meditations. We are here as a result of the ceaseless, merciless (but also sometimes wonderful) river of change that flows through the world. And we are here because whether people liked all those changes or not, they figured out how to endure and survive and even thrive within it. We are here because someone protected us and took care of us during the scary changes that surrounded our childhood and vulnerable years.
Now we must figure out how to do the same. How to endure and survive and thrive. How to accept and accommodate. How to protect and stay good. How to stay sane. How to stay focused and flexible. How to change with all these changes.
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