Resentment: My Portable Friend
Good ole’ resentment. Wherever you go - it’s ready to travel with you. When you read articles about resentment, typically, you are provided with the same standard advice, i.e., “let it go”, “get over it” and the favorite: “resentment is like drinking a poison and hoping the other person feels the effect”. If only it was that easy. Resentment is ‘portable’. It travels freely, it can appear at any moment and keeps you company when you have nothing else to think about. The inter
Frogman and the Stoic Exchange
Frogman and the Stoic Exchange: It’s Tuesday evening in early January. I am sitting - in a quaint coffee/wine restaurant on the Upper Eastside of Manhattan. I have just completed my annual medical examination at Mt. Sinai Medical Center. This is my second time here. I am enrolled in a 30-year follow-up study for World Trade Center (WTC) First Responders from 9/11. I hate this procedure, i.e., the anxiety, the dread, the poking, the prodding. Months before you actually arrive,
