“Seneca”

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are.
We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger; Letters from a Stoic

“Epictetus”

“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”

— Epictetus

This is one of my favorite quotes.
I’ve always said that if you ‘walk like a Predator’, you never need be afraid. Because predators don’t attack predators.
In a bad neighborhood or bad part of town, if you walk and act like you know what you are doing, people leave you alone.
This also works in interpersonal relationships. If you are confident, people rarely question you, and you tend to go farther in life.

Even if the confidence is a ‘facade’, only you need to know that you have doubts.

“It ‘bears’ further”

Explanation…

I apologize for the quick ‘Bear’ post, but I was at Powell Ranger Station Idaho with an iffy signal.

For those of you whom were fans of the ‘Late Great Paul Harvey’;

Here is ‘The rest of the story’.

My lovely bride and I were on a 4+ hour Scoot ride through the Lolo pass of the Bitterroot mountains.
At or near the 5,233 ft summit of the pass is the Montana/Idaho border. We decided to turn around at ‘Powell’ Idaho, in 12 miles, as indicated by a mileage marker.

There is no ‘Powell Idaho’, there’s the ‘Powell Ranger station’, which has adjacent to it the ‘Powell Lodge’.
There is a lodge/Restaurant and it has surrounding log cabins. The area also has a ‘rustic’ convenience store gas station.
We stopped to stretch, I pumped fuel while @The_CINC went inside to grab a couple of cold drinks.

Once I finished fueling the Scoot, I found a shady spot to park it in, and I went inside the store.
The word ‘Store’ is a gracious description. ...