{"id":238,"date":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/we-cant-control-what-disasters-a-new-year-may-bring-stoicism-can-help-us-get-up-and-try-again\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:27:05","slug":"we-cant-control-what-disasters-a-new-year-may-bring-stoicism-can-help-us-get-up-and-try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/we-cant-control-what-disasters-a-new-year-may-bring-stoicism-can-help-us-get-up-and-try-again\/","title":{"rendered":"We can\u2019t control what disasters a new year may bring. Stoicism can help us get up and try again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media can amplify our own helplessness and guilt \u2013 perhaps it\u2019s time to return our focus from the global to the local, where we can truly make a change<\/p>\n<p>I am a worrier. Long before I read about the stoics, I tended to begin my days with what they call a <em>premeditatio malorum<\/em> \u2013 a rumination on all the very worst things that could happen in the next 24 hours. These days, I achieve the same effect by logging on to Twitter (or X, as nobody but Elon Musk will ever call it).<\/p>\n<p>To exist in the age of globalised social media is to wake up to the news that the worst has happened somewhere and, somehow, it\u2019s your fault. Looking ahead to 2024, the thought of 365 more days of the worst possible happenings actually happening \u2013 and my being somehow complicit, if only as witness \u2013 doesn\u2019t exactly fill me with festive cheer.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/dec\/29\/we-cant-control-what-disasters-a-new-year-may-bring-stoicism-can-help-us-get-up-and-try-again\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media can amplify our own helplessness and guilt \u2013 perhaps it\u2019s time to return our focus from the global to the local, where we can truly make a change I am a worrier. Long before I read about the stoics, I tended to begin my days with what they call a premeditatio malorum \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"We can\u2019t control what disasters a new year may bring. Stoicism can help us get up and try again\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/28\/we-cant-control-what-disasters-a-new-year-may-bring-stoicism-can-help-us-get-up-and-try-again\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about We can\u2019t control what disasters a new year may bring. Stoicism can help us get up and try again\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}