"A poor soul burdened with a corpse," Epictetus calls you.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book Four
I really do need to design a Champlain course based around the Meditations. A couple years ago I put in a proposal for a first year course as part of our new curriculum, but it wasn't chosen. While I suspect this particular passage wouldn't resonate with my students (if anything resonates with them . . .) but it definitely speaks to me as I slide deeper into my 60s.
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