Maxim: Turmoil

That every event is the right one. Look closely and you’ll see. Not just the right one overall, but right. As if someone had weighed it out with scales.

–Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone making the opposite recommendation: To condemn the journey. But that is the model under which so many live.

Including me, once. Not really anymore, but not so long ago that I do not feel the sting of it. I was obsessed with my upbringing, schooling, every girl, every mistake, every comeback–you name it, I had an exhaustive plan for How Things Could’ve Been Different. Yet they weren’t, and the confluence of circumstances is why I am here, now.

That’s why I have things to say. Otherwise, who knows?

Further reading:
Being Free from Perturbation Pt. 1, 2, 3 & 4
The Art of Letting Bad Things Happen