AYA Writes

In my Daily Stoic,

“You’re always where you leave yourself, wherever you go there you are. At the end of the day, you go home alone, you go home to yourself.”

The thing is, we can try many new things. We like to think we can get away from our problems, that it will be different there, that a change of scenery will change us.

You can get a new job. Get a new baby. Get some new money...

But it’s not going to fix us. It’s not going to solve our problems for us.

Because - it’s impossible to actually flee yourself. You are always going to be there, your issues right where you left them.

“Far too many good brains have been afflicted by the pointless enthusiasm for useless knowledge.” Seneca says. "Only knowledge that does us good is worth knowing. Everything else is trivia."

We certainly aren’t reading to impress people or for mental gymnastics. Not unless we are. We read to get better! To find things we can use. Not at the dinner table or on Twitter, but in our real lives.

I am beginning to think the knowledge I have is trivia. Is your knowledge trivia, Sam Katila

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