Stand-out lesson learned in my Stoicism studies so far: Marcus Aurelius qualifies as a bitch. A bitch trying to do better, but a bitch nonetheless.
In his famous book Meditations (his journaling that he never intended anyone to see), he starts out like Dear Diary, people are fucking annoying!
I'm paraphrasing, of course.
Point is, bitching is timeless, and most of the insights and philosophy and life hacks that stand the test of time were written by bitchy motherfuckers like Nietzsche sitting alone scribbling their bitch-ass thoughts trying to become excellent or just fucking cope with being fish out of water and odd men out within cultures of craziness where their standards of goodness and/or excellence were not shared by others.
No. The REAL point is not to bitch just for bitching's sake, but to recognize something's challenging you or upsetting your peace of mind and thoughtfully wade through what it is and why it is to get closer to what you can do about it, if anything, and how to distinguish between what you can change and what you can't, and manage life when there are so many things you have no fucking control over.
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