Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you.

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one. Set people straight, if you can. If not, just repair the damage.