Stoic Meditation
Yeah I know, weird title
Today I had some driving lessons and my tutor took me to a place where he and other usually practice with cars and motorcycles, and it’s in an open field close to a farm
While I was driving I kept noticing some cows, bulls, calf, some horses and even some dogs and they were just living in the moment, a bunch of loud vehicles were right next to them and they were simply eating grass, the dogs where playing with the calf, etc
It made me think about animals in general when I finished my class and was going back to my home, every single day an animal needs to worry about 2 things (what they will eat and to not be eaten) that’s a universal rule for every living creature and yet they don’t complain, they play with one another, they explore, they mate, they have their daily challenges but they simply do them because they are capable of doing it and so are we
I’m both neurodivergent and used to struggle a lot stuff like social anxiety, following deadlines, general anxiety, being bullied through my entire life and etc
But time and time again I surpass my challenges because I simply can, I suffered from anticipation for no reason, nature/destiny gave me daily challenges that are most of the time in my control to overcome, it gave me intelligence to plan my day ahead and compensate or focus on my shortcomings and it gave me mindfulness to ignore things that I don’t control, today an old man made fun of me for how I wobble a bit when I walk and I simply ignored him, it was in my power to be offended or not and I choose not to
