{"id":78659,"date":"2022-09-07T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=78659"},"modified":"2022-09-12T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:27:24","slug":"take-life-as-it-comes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/take-life-as-it-comes\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Life as It Comes: Wisdom From the Stoics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you wish things were different? Do you hang on tightly to possessions that could be gone tomorrow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stoic philosophers tried to manage their lives wisely. Wisdom entails applying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/sound-judgment\/\">good judgment<\/a> to the way you live life so that you can stay focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/virtuous-life\/\">living virtuously<\/a> (the ultimate goal). An attitude of taking life as it comes is part and parcel of living wisely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read on to learn how to take life as it comes, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stoic-way\/\">Stoic way<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-take-life-as-it-comes\">Take Life as It Comes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One principle for living wisely, according to the Stoics, is learning to <em>take life as it comes<\/em>. As they saw it, <em>circumstances<\/em> are neutral\u2014neither good nor bad. By contrast, <em>actions<\/em> can be good or bad. Knowing this, <strong>our life circumstances are little more than a canvas on which we paint our virtuous actions<\/strong>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: While circumstances had no moral value to the Stoics\u2014they described them as <em>indifferent<\/em>\u2014they maintained that <a href=\"https:\/\/iep.utm.edu\/stoiceth\/\">circumstances aren\u2019t equally neutral<\/a>. For instance, they considered wealth a <em>preferred<\/em> indifferent, poverty a <em>dispreferred<\/em> indifferent, and the shape of your ear an <em>absolute<\/em> indifferent. Generally, a person is better off wealthy and healthy than poor and sick, though, occasionally, the Stoics believed that enduring such suffering was helpful for cultivating virtuous character.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keeping this in mind, you shouldn\u2019t wish for circumstances to be anything other than what they actually are, write the authors. Don\u2019t hope for a better future or pine for a remembered past\u2014live virtuously in the present moment exactly as it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: People often recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.happierhuman.com\/live-moment\/\">living in the moment if you want to feel happy<\/a>, but that\u2019s not the goal the Stoics had in mind. For them, living in the moment was <em>reasonable<\/em>\u2014there\u2019s no use in concerning yourself with the past because you can\u2019t affect it at all. Similarly, you can only affect the future by what you do in the present. Therefore, you should focus on doing good in the present. You might feel happier as a result, but that\u2019s just a byproduct of living rationally, according to the Stoics.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, to the Stoics, taking life as it comes entails <em>detachment <\/em>from experiences and possessions. They argue that our experiences in life and the things we accumulate can become traps that co-opt our focus and desires, write the authors. Maybe we own a nice house or we\u2019re skilled at a sport\u2014those things aren\u2019t within our control. It\u2019s not reasonable to hold onto them tightly because they\u2019re not guaranteed to last: The house could burn down in a fire, or the skill could dwindle with age or injury. Virtue, on the other hand, endures. <strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: This insight is not unique to the Stoics. Outside of Stoicism, detachment (also called non-attachment) is an important concept in numerous religious traditions. In Buddhism, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learnreligions.com\/why-do-buddhists-avoid-attachment-449714\">non-attachment is the means to achieve <em>enlightenment<\/em><\/a>. Jainism holds a similar view, asserting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/jainism\/living\/aparigraha.shtml\">possessions are an impediment to achieving <em>liberation<\/em><\/a>. Similarly, to keep their focus on Christ, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Colossians%203&amp;version=NIV\">Christians are discouraged from becoming attached to things of the world<\/a>.)&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you wish things were different? Do you hang on tightly to possessions that could be gone tomorrow? The Stoic philosophers tried to manage their lives wisely. Wisdom entails applying good judgment to the way you live life so that you can stay focused on living virtuously (the ultimate goal). An attitude of taking life as it comes is part and parcel of living wisely. 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