Loss and fate

Loss and fate: 37 Stoic exercises and cases on sorting what is yours from what is not.

Cases in this topic

Propositions in this topic

• TrueYou have never lost anything; you have given it back.
• FalseAn injustice done to you must keep being contested in your head.
• TrueAn obstacle can become the way itself.
• FalseGetting sick at a bad moment may determine your mood.
• FalseLosing your job says something about your worth.
• TrueLoving something in the awareness that it is transient makes you freer.
• TrueWhoever cooperates with the inevitable is carried along; whoever resists is dragged.
• FalseIf you lose something through your own fault, you must keep holding it against yourself.

Situations in this topic

• Not yoursYour phone drops and the screen is shattered.
• YoursWhether you keep brooding over the damage or arrange the repair.
• Not yoursYour flight is cancelled because of the weather.
• Not yoursYou unexpectedly lose an assignment.
• YoursWhether you hold a cherished object as something fragile or as something indispensable.
• Not yoursAn appointment you were looking forward to gets cancelled.
• YoursWhether after a setback you begin anew or stay stuck in what should have been.
• BothA long friendship is slowly bleeding out.