“It’s time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.”—Marcus Aurelius
When we live our lives in auto-pilot mode… responding to life around us… just focused on surviving through our days…
Life around us makes us dance like a puppet, responding to the strings as they’re pulled.
Living life by default is a choice.
It requires no thought, no planning, and feels like the simplest path with the least resistance.
But it’s the most dangerous. Allowing life to dictate what’s possible for us and what path we’ll take.
We can choose how we respond to our own strings. To not react when they’re pulled.
To pause, to think, to ponder, to take control.
With the ability to reason and choose we have power.
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