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-THE ISLAND LIFE-

There’s no real way around it: Life is hard and filled with sorrow. Marcus Aurelius’ life was defined by loss—starting with his father at age 3, followed by half his children, his wife, and the Antonine Plague. Seneca saw Rome recede into the distance as he went into exile and Musonius Rufus experienced that four times (we tell his story in Lives of the Stoics). Epictetus woke up each day for the first three decades of his life as a slave.

This was not fun. It was not fair.

Stoic philosophy didn’t magically transform these events. It would be glib and preposterous to claim that it could. No, what Stoic philosophy did for them, and what it can do for us is make these events bearable. It can give us perspective. It can give us courage. It can give us toughness and resilience—virtue in the face of adversity.

Can it take the sorrow away? No, no it can’t. Pain and suffering and loss are a part of life. It was a part of life two thousand years ago and it’s a part of life today. It was a part of life for the rich and powerful Stoics like Marcus and Seneca, it was a part of life for the powerless like Epictetus.

We don’t control events but we control how we respond to events. We will experience things that make us sad, but we decide whether we give up, whether this breaks us, whether it makes us better or worse. That’s what Stoicism did for them…and what it can do for us.

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