Meditations #7

 Adapt yourself to the environment in which your lot has been cast, and show true love to the fellow-mortals with which destiny has surrounded you.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Six

For some reason this seemed like the natural follow-up to the last two posts, while also recognizing my failure, all too often, to make it a reality. All the tests show that I fall on the Internal Locus of Control side of things, and thus I'm very much a "you control your own destiny" type of person. As SW will often opine in regards to something I say or do, and quoting Lawrence of Arabia, "nothing is written." However, there are times when you simply don't control where you go or who you are worth, but you can control your response to that moment, to that environment.