Stoic Coffee Break

Transcript:Hello Friends. My name is Erick Cloward and welcome to the Stoic Coffee Break. The Stoic Coffee Break is a weekly podcast where I take an aspect of stoicism and do my best to break it down into its smaller parts and see how we can apply it in our daily lives. I try to share my experiences, both my successes and my mistakes that hopefully you can learn from them and all within the time of a Coffee break. Today's episode is called Neediness.Marcus Aurelius said, "People exist for one another, you can instruct or endure them". Earlier this week I went to a movie theater. Now I know we're in the middle of a pandemic so that seems like something odd that I would do because I follow science. I wear my mask and I've already got my second dose of the vaccine. But in this case it was a socially distance night at the movie theater. Friend of ours had rented out the theater so we could watch an old seventies kung fu movie and it was really a great time. It was a very small group of us in this whole giant thea