meditations marcus aurelius rip marcus aurelius you would of..

meditations marcus aurelius rip marcus aurelius you would of loved the tao te ching. i mean, it was already written hundreds of years before you were born, but it seems like you were real focused on the greeks and all. this really is a very taoist text in bits. sometimes he’s more platonist or buddhist, and of course most the times he’s ~stoic~, but stoicism and taoism have a lot of overlap. rip marcus aurelius you would have loved winnie the pooh. he talks a lot about how everything in nature is good, but then after i put the book down, two seconds later i come into contact with a poisonous plant and break out in painful hives for hours. i guess it’s ~good~ for the plant to be poisonous and the good of the spider is not the good of the fly and all that, BUT he also kept preachin to me that nothing natural can hurt me and that shit hurted. i guess i’m just suppose to be so stoic about it and not let it hurt my mind. he did say that things that happen to the body are meaningless so i guess it works. i don’t agree when he says things like that anger is unnatural; that’s where the stoics always lose me, stifling feelings. rip marcus aurelius you would have hated that your journals with unfinished thoughts is out here being retranslated over and over again. at least i would. imagine if my notes app notes got published posthumously. id kill myself all over again. i stopped keeping diaries after mine got stolen out of my car by a guy who r worded me. not on my silvia plath shit anymore.(i say while i am currently reading her journals) here are my top three quotes “the best revenge is not being like that” “keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment” and “the gods live forever and yet they don't seem annoyed at having to put up with human beings and their behavior throughout eternity. and not only put up with but actively care for them. and you on the verge of death-you still refuse to care for them, although you're one of them yourself.” i actually have a shit ton of criticism of this book and of stoicism in general but i know a lot of you on here are super into it so i i’ll leave it alone. 7.5/10