Flossing your teeth is about the most Stoic thing you can do. Consider!
You're taking care of yourself. Of course you are! This is dental hygiene at its finest. Gettin' out all those bits and rocks. As soon as you've done it, you' re better off. You've left your mouth better than you found it. Stoic!
You're taking care of your community. We've all had a conversation with somebody who smells like they've been hittin' the road kill buffet with the local poodle.
Did you just gargle with something dead you found in the woods?
And if you bring it up, they'll often say "That's strange. I done brushed my teeth this morning."
Was that before your breakfast of fecal toast and sulfur dots?
The answer could be the pieces of rotting meat stuck between their teeth. But not you! You've got the freshest of mouths 'cause you done flossed it! Stoic!
It's easy to do, easy not to do. This is one my favorite Jim Rohn lines and it's a real Stoic attitude: Do the good which you can as soon as you can because you can. This covers a lot of little things (up on time, a little stretchy, maybe a walk, eight onces of water) that would really help us through our days but we don't do them mostly because they seem so small and easy we don't attach worth to them. The people who do attach worth to them are the people who do them. They know the practice is the benefit, the habit of doing those little things is the juice. They make their bed and hit the day running. Stoic!
Nobody cares / Only you know. There's no glory in teeth flossing. No one gets prizes or accolades for most consecutive days flossing or the most flossed mouth. And whether you do or don't matters not a whit to anyone. The universe will be just fine with your mouth full of last night's popcorn and Sticky Fat ®. Chances are, nobody will even know. But you'll know.
Character is what you do alone in the dark or, in this case, alone in the bathroom with the floss. And while two lines don't constitute a proper paragraph, this second line ends the entry anyway.
Sticky Fat ® is a registered trademark of MoneyFude Inc.You're taking care of your community. We've all had a conversation with somebody who smells like they've been hittin' the road kill buffet with the local poodle.
Did you just gargle with something dead you found in the woods?
And if you bring it up, they'll often say "That's strange. I done brushed my teeth this morning."
Was that before your breakfast of fecal toast and sulfur dots?
The answer could be the pieces of rotting meat stuck between their teeth. But not you! You've got the freshest of mouths 'cause you done flossed it! Stoic!
It's easy to do, easy not to do. This is one my favorite Jim Rohn lines and it's a real Stoic attitude: Do the good which you can as soon as you can because you can. This covers a lot of little things (up on time, a little stretchy, maybe a walk, eight onces of water) that would really help us through our days but we don't do them mostly because they seem so small and easy we don't attach worth to them. The people who do attach worth to them are the people who do them. They know the practice is the benefit, the habit of doing those little things is the juice. They make their bed and hit the day running. Stoic!
Nobody cares / Only you know. There's no glory in teeth flossing. No one gets prizes or accolades for most consecutive days flossing or the most flossed mouth. And whether you do or don't matters not a whit to anyone. The universe will be just fine with your mouth full of last night's popcorn and Sticky Fat ®. Chances are, nobody will even know. But you'll know.
Character is what you do alone in the dark or, in this case, alone in the bathroom with the floss. And while two lines don't constitute a proper paragraph, this second line ends the entry anyway.
So don't even front.
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