Thought of the day from Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change."

Thought of the day from Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius: "Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change."

Loss usually means something is gone. A person, a job, a version of your life you assumed would keep going. The word has a one-way feeling to it, as if the world got smaller and stayed that way. Marcus Aurelius, it seems, wanted to swap that definition for a different one, and the swap is the whole point of the line: call it change instead of loss, and the door stops feeling permanently shut. A note before going further: we’re not clinicians, ps…