While in Italy last month, I re-read Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations'. It is therapeutic to consider the self-help messages this famous Roman Emperor wrote over 1800 years ago.
Here's an excerpt, from book 4 section 3...
"What's there to complain about? People's misbehavior?
But take into consideration:
- that rational beings exist for one another;
- that doing what's right sometimes requires patience;
- that no one does the wrong thing deliberately;
- and the number of people who have feuded and envied and hated and fought and died and been buried.
...and keep your mouth shut."
One of my heroes...
Marcus Aurelius
121 AD - 180 AD