The Stoics treated the body plainly, neither worshipping it nor despising it. It's the house you've been lent for the length of a life, and looking after it is just good sense. Not to chase a perfect shape, not to win anyone's approval, but because this body carries you through everything you care about. Caring for it can be unglamorous: water, sleep, a walk, putting down the thing that's draining you. You don't have to fix it or love every part of it to treat it well. You can start by being a fair landlord to the body you have, today, as it is.

Inspired by the old idea of virtue as the only good. Written by Ugo Charles.