#peace of mind...

[apassionateman]

Peace of mind seems elusive at times...

Yet each of us must find our own, as no one can do it for us.

[chiritori]

using the internet became so much more enjoyable after i started blocking anyone who even mildly annoys me

[re-tro-future]

Cons of wearing a mask: ppl can't see my face expressions when I smile at them

Pros of wearing a mask: ppl can't see my face expressions when I see pics of nct

[breezingby]

A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety

“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

“A twenty-four-hour news cycle that preys on this human propensity has undeniably aggravated the problem and swelled the 8% to appear as 98%, but at the heart of this warping of reality is an ancient tendency of mind so hard-wired into our psyche that it exists independently of external events. The great first-century Roman philosopher Seneca examined it, and its only real antidote, with uncommon insight in his correspondence with his friend Lucilius Junior, later published as Letters from a Stoic (public library) — the timeless trove of wisdom that gave us Seneca on true and false friendship and the mental discipline of overcoming fear. “