If the breaking day sees someone proud,
Seneca, Thyestes, 613
The ending day sees them brought low.
No one should put too much trust in triumph,
No one should give up hope of trials improving.
Clotho mixes one with the other and stops
Fortune from resting, spinning every fate around.
No one has had so much divine favor
That they could guarantee themselves tomorrow.
God keeps our lives hurtling on,
Spinning in a whirlwind.
According to the book, Clotho is one of the three Greek goddesses of fate who “spins” the threads of human life. The playwright Aeschylus wrote, “When the gods send evil, one cannot escape it.” The same was true for great destiny and fortune.
This is another example of acceptance. We are not in control, and what will happen will happen regardless. However, this quote digs into another facet of this concept. What is today may not be tomorrow. Nothing lasts forever. A triumph can be come a trial, and a trial a triumph in an instant.
What you are experiencing now will pass. Let this be a sobering fact because it applies to both the good and bad.
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