All of our upbringings were different. Some were given two parents, others only one. Maybe it took a village to raise you. Either way, we didn't get to decide who our mom was, who our dad was, if they got divorced, if they were present, if our step-parents were a blessing or a nightmare. It was all outside of our control.

Yet every one of us, as Seneca said, gets to choose whose children we will be.

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And in today's Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan discusses the importance of musing and meditating on the so-called "worst case scenario" rather than shying away from it in your thoughts.

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