THE ORIGINAL | Be Good. Live Abundantly

To encounter trouble is not a burden, but an opportunity to test your strength and resilience. The obstacles that arise are indifferent—they carry no malice, nor do they seek to break you. It is your mind that assigns them meaning, and in that, lies your power. The Stoic knows that trouble, like all things, passes. It is not the challenge itself that matters, but how you rise to meet it, how you choose to remain calm, steady, and aligned with virtue. In trouble, we are reminded that we cannot control the world, only our response to it. Let that response be measured, grounded, and unshaken.