This is not stoicism but an acknowledgment that an essential part of life is bearing with suffering with the knowledge that suffering does not have the final say. And even when our minds deceive us into hopelessness, we cannot shake the truth that life is still precious. Perhaps we cannot sense the preciousness of our own lives, but the lives of our loved ones feel inherently sacred. We love them, which means we feel the goodness of their existence even when we can’t feel the goodness of our own. And in those moments we must remember that the decision to scorn the goodness of our own life is
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