There is something that I find it hard to deal with over the years. One of them is the need for extreme swings of happiness and sadness. Whenever there are case studies in life where it usually call for a collective need to be extremely happy (promotions, work success, family success) or extreme sadness (someone passes away, someone got into some really bad shxt), I find it hard for me to resolve the need for this emotion. I sometimes wonder whether there are some emotional or psychological flaw in my make up. Until I realize that its not just me feeling this way. There is a whole host of folks that over time followed the stoic philosophy even though they do not know it themselves. This philosophy stems from the influence of Seneca, Marcus Aurelius centers very much on pragmatism, knowledge, reflection, grit. Because most things can be explain by ......