Inside The Diary of a Stoic
Just two weeks ago, the world watched in complete awe as Space X launched two American astronauts into space, a historic achievement for the company and for America’s future space project. While launching rockets into space is something routine for Nasa and Space X, watching the event got me thinking quite differently. In the hours that followed, as we waited with bated breath for astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to dock at the International Space Station (ISS), a journey of approximately nineteen hours, I watched countless videos of space, rocket launches, stories about extraterrestrial civilization, you name it. The more I watched the videos and got more live pictures of space (as captured by the Hubble Telescope), the more I got in touch with my stoic instincts. It’s a big universe out there, and we are just some little creatures scurrying around on a rock as it hurtles through space. Anyone who understands the sheer scale of the universe will appreciate why stoicism is pe...