Describe a situation in your life (or your past, or the life of someone close to you) in which you’ve been trying to control circumstances or people that you really don’t have control over, and wish you hadn’t knocked yourself out trying to control it all. Explain the likely consequences to you and/or others if you had let go sooner.

PHIL1301 journal response

• When you answer, please write a serious paragraph or two in reponse. If your answer is only a few lines or sentences, you’re not thinking deeply enough.
• Include at least ONE properly cited source to help strengthen your answer. Use the TRAAP guidelines here to test the appropriateness of your source(s). Be sure to give the full bibliographic citation at the bottom and cite the source after the information you took from it in your paragraph(s). You can go to a site like EasyBib.com, designate the MLA format, and give it the information it requests. It will formate a legally correct bibliography for the bottom of your Journal Response. See my Sample Journal Response to see how that looks.
• Try to let me know in your answer that you understood Stoicism.

Prompt: Reflect on Stoicism a bit. Describe a situation in your life (or your past, or the life of someone close to you) in which you’ve been trying to control circumstances or people that you really don’t have control over, and wish you hadn’t knocked yourself out trying to control it all. Explain the likely consequences to you and/or others if you had let go sooner.