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Hype & Hustle! How Slowing Down Saves you Money
Blog Cover Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The song went: so much to do, so much to see, so what’s wrong with taking the back seat? I feel overwhelmed sometimes when life moves so fast, that I can’t seem to process everything and the worst feeling is that I didn’t make the most of Read more
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AI Photos & The Disingenuous Bastard
AI is taking over the world, this remarkable technology allows people to create digital content rapidly, often in mere seconds. It’s amazing, and I myself have been astounded by just how easy AI platforms make art & literature. Recently I have been using chat-gpt to summarize books, develop systems and code for me, it even Read more
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A Wise Man & Friends
A Wise man is content with himself and thus therefore need no friends Epicurus to Stilbo So I celebrated my birthday recently and came to find that my way of ignoring greetings on social media has really filtered the truest of connections I have considering where I am in life. Because it was one things Read more
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Girl with Coffee
I have been meaning to get back into drawing again, which is one of the many dreams that I want to work on. If I look back, there was a time I did like to draw a lot, I would be filling notebooks with random scribbles and sketches, but somewhere along the line, pictures and Read more
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Lately I’ve Read… Like a Lot
When I put up my blog, I was hoping to do a weekly post on what book I’ve read that week, but I found that when I did finish one, I would be starting on the next one immediately and the ideas from the one before just went up in the ether, or I would Read more
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This Week I Read: The 5AM Club by Robin Sharma
I always considered myself a morning person, that could be because as a child, my mother would be banging pots at around 5am to force us to get up. The school bus, which was in fact a jeepney, would be arriving soon. We were in the middle of the bus route so the driver would Read more
Keeping Up the Sunny Side
Stoicism is not being Apathetic
Considering that these days we choose to have things be defined for one reason or another, putting the label of apathy on Stoicism is simply just inaccurate.
Marcus Aurelius has documented well in his meditations how he would go through so much emotion in different parts of his life, how he took pleasures in the little things and how much he grieved for great losses. He was everything but lacking of emotion. But through the good and bad, he took them simply for what they are, fleeting moments in the river of time. He cherished the idea of now, he learned from the past, and he prepared for the future, to make the most of life for what it is, and drive away the darkness of nihilism.
This blog is about Stoicism, and about driving away Nihilistic thoughts. And I welcome you to share in my journey.
Hi! I’m a Blogger, Photographer and Hobbyist.
I like to write, draw and take photos of stuff.
Aga Aquino 