Do your mother or father use a name for you that isn’t your real name? Like
a pet name, a fun name, or a nickname?
When my
mother was in a really positive and loving mood she would sometimes call me Marcus Aurellius. I didn’t know who
this was, but did have some understanding that it was a person in history and
perhaps a famous person.
Many
years ago I did some research and discovered that he was a Roman Emperor. I
haven’t thought about him again until today when I read a quote of his on this
internet.
Marcus Aurelius was Roman Emperor from 161 to
180. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered
one of the most important Stoic philosophers.
The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted
from errors in judgment, and that a sage,
or person of "moral and intellectual perfection," would not suffer
such emotions.
They presented their
philosophy as a way of life, and they thought that the best indication
of an individual's philosophy was not what a person said but how they behaved
[emphasis mine].
SOURCE:
Wikipedia
What’s really fascinating
for me, and this is the synchronicity part, is that I deeply believe the last
part in bold.
