Let The Horror Become The Common (Epitectus sections 21-26)

As Epitectus goes on enlightening us with his knowledge about how virtues in a man can change and as well his points of view. Everything can be seen with different eyes. so focusing on this, Epitectus mentions: "Let death and exile and everything that is terrible appear before your eyes every day, especially death; and you will never have anything contemptible in your thought or crave anything excessively" (Epitectus Sec. 21).

Not many people realize how true and significant this is in a human's life. It would completely change the way people viewed death, hence changing the morbidness and darkness about dying. It is actually a simple excercise more of the mind and conciusness than of anything stronger such as the soul or anything resembling it or any divine power.

You just have to understand, and picture life without that person, or object. It works, by making death or actually anything that upsets you into something daily and common, like taking a shower. We don't get scared every morning of getting our skin wet, because we do it every day, and we know that our skin and hair can be dried up.

This is the same. Death can also be dried up. Maybe not with a towel, but something poetically resembeling it. If you entertain any thought for a correct amount of time, the craving of it becomes a routine, hence not wanting it and desiring it as you prevoiusly did. It is just a routinary mind game, that only does the simple task, to help you get over death.