It is common to all trades and professions to focus only on what they are doing right now, and on the tools they use to do it.
It is common to all trades and professions to mind and intend that only, which now they are about, and the instrument whereby they work.
Neither did I leave my body entirely to the doctors to do whatever they wanted. I didn't expect much from them, and I didn't think getting my health back through them was that important. My current condition seemed fine to me and gave me peace.' So when you get sick (if you happen to get sick) or face any other kind of crisis, try to have the same mindset that Epicurus described. Don't abandon your philosophy because of anything that happens to you. Don't listen to foolish people and those who only think about physical things.
Neither did I leave the ordering of my body to the physicians altogether to do with me what they would, as though I expected any great matter from them, or as though I thought it a matter of such great consequence, by their means to recover my health: for my present estate, methought, liked me very well, and gave me good content.' Whether therefore in sickness (if thou chance to sicken) or in what other kind of extremity soever, endeavour thou also to be in thy mind so affected, as he doth report of himself: not to depart from thy philosophy for anything that can befall thee, nor to give ear to the discourses of silly people, and mere naturalists.