Forgiveness is a virtue. It’s a virtue because it signifies that something negative happened that warrants it being given. It shows you have the mental and emotional capacity to forgive the offending person. Taking it a step further, not holding something against someone (whether forgiveness was yours to give or […]
Stop Screaming for Ice Cream (and Everything Else)
When I was a kid, I learned the Ice Cream song. You might know it. At the time and through the decades that followed, I never gave a lot of thought to what it meant. As things typically happen in my brain, the song came to mind the other day […]
Stoicism 101: Hot tubs are indifferents
I’ve recently been reading about stoicism. One concept that particularly piques my interest is that our virtues versus our vices. Virtues are good, and vices are bad. Virtues are in line with balance, and vices bring us unbalance. Simply put, it’s a good versus bad, but for stoics, there is […]