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Live calmly in the present, and do not borrow trouble from a future that may never come.
Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase
What it means today

Worry is a debt you pay on a disaster that may never arrive. Live in the present, and let the future arrive in its own time, if it arrives at all.

Try this todayStop borrowing one worry from tomorrow today.
Today’s questionWhat trouble am I borrowing from a future that may not come?
#calm#present#worry
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