When a problem fills your whole sky, the Stoics offered a trick: rise above it in your mind. Picture yourself from high up, then higher, the building, the city, the turning earth. From there your worry doesn't vanish, but it stops being the only thing. Marcus did this often, imagining the long stretch of time and the smallness of any single day's noise. Most of what grips us is local and loud, and shrinks the moment we widen the frame. This isn't about deciding nothing matters. It's about seeing your trouble at true scale, so it gets a fair share of your worry and not all of it.

Inspired by the old idea of view from above. Written by Ugo Charles.