Letters from a Stoic, the Roman statesman and renowned Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote, “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” It is perhaps in our constant expectation that something outside of ourselves or in the future is needed for a worthwhile experience in life that causes our inability to ever find worthwhile experience in life in the first place.
