Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Not only did I not have trouble reading this. But I loved every single aphorism. It's certainly one of my favorite readings assigned to us so far. I understood it clearly, it wasn't hard to read at all, and I had fun reading it. I mostly found myself taking these aphorisms and applying them to me. And realizing how true they are. Most of them anyway. And how I never realized this. My favorite one was number 73. You've given aid and they've received it, and yet like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a good deed, to be repaid in kind, why?
As soon as I read that, I was like whoa. It hit me so fast, I tend to do this. And I found myself thinking Why? Trying to answer it in my head. And I still can't think of why. There were others that also caught my attention. And I wrote some of them down. It was fun reading each one.

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