Changeability Of Life. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Virginia Woolf, although
she was in the end
unable to conquer
her demons,
was an avid
keeper of a journal,
and wrote down
her innermost
thoughts aiming
to work through
her feelings.


Practicing stoics
still recommend
the keeping of
a journal, in order
to steel themselves
for whatever
the day ahead
may throw at them,
and later in the day,
to review their actions.

The idea is to train
yourself to be as
prepared as possible,
given the changeability of life.

(She shared this habit with many significant writers and thinkers, among them Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Oscar Wilde - and Stoic Marcus Aurelius) .