The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily

A message arrives with fewer words than you expected. You read it again. The brevity begins to sound like irritation; the irritation becomes a judgment about your relationship. By the time you put the phone down, you are responding to a conversation that has not happened.We live among events and our interpretations of them. The interpretations help us navigate. They also become increasingly difficult to distinguish from what we actually observed. Epictetus makes a demanding claim about that relationship. [...]------📺 DYING EVERY DAY (ON YOUTUBE):https://www.youtube.com/@MeditationsforMortals📮 DYING EVERY DAY (ON SUBSTACK):https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe📷 DYING EVERY DAY (ON INSTAGRAM):https://www.instagram.com/dyingeveryday.co/ABOUT US:Dying Every Day is a podcast and newsletter for mortals and curious minds. Become a member to support the project and gain access to The School for Mortals and its exclusive courses on the art of living.