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You didn't think it was all going to go perfectly, did you? That life was sunshine and kittens? That it would all be an upward climb, an unbroken climb of successes and achievements, that as long as you put the work in, everything would work out?? Fortune doesn't care about our plans and preferences. No, Seneca reminds us, she behaves as she pleases. There are tough moments. There is heartbreak. There is betrayal. Things break. Luck turns. Even when things seem to be going our way for a period of time, Seneca warns us not to misinterpret her kindness because she "has given as well as taken away." The next turn of Fortune's wheel might be a bad one. This shouldn't surprise us. Nor should it make us despair. It has to be this way. Just as there is no world without shameless people, to borrow a reminder Marcus Aurelius gives himself in Meditations (our lovely leather edition here), there is no life in which some rain does not fall. So tell yourself that. That is what this moment is. This was bound to happen. It was unavoidable that this would happen. This is my number coming up. We could never have avoided it. All we can do is accept it. Process it. And focus, as always, on responding well.
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