to the context of this “blog”

“No, I’m not so shameless as to set about treating people when I’m sick myself. I’m talking to you as if I were lying in the same hospital ward, about the illness we’re both suffering from, and passing on some remedies. So listen to me as if I were speaking to myself. I’m allowing you access to my inmost self, calling you in to advise me as I have things out with myself.”

– Seneca (who is one of my favourite thinkers… Read “Letters from a Stoic” and “Dialogues and Essays”)