Perspective shapes what we experience. It doesn’t rewrite what happened. Somewhere between fact, intent, interpretation and reaction is the uncomfortable business of figuring out what actually belongs to us.
Marcus Aurelius had rumination. We have rumination with Wi-Fi. What happens when an ancient philosophy of attention and self-control meets a device designed to steal both?
Maybe the problem isn’t that we don’t have all the answers. Maybe it’s that we’ve become afraid to admit when we don’t.