stoicism: do stoics dream

....are advocates of stoicism allowed/able to minister, even as bystanders.
back when mother tried to imprint the concept in our tiny minds: some of us listened.
confused and giddy by her wisdom: we actually tried to be stoics... at least i did.
mother dismissed my efforts: i was 'emotional' (please) and spoke with 'clenched teeth'. but mom: that doesn't make sense. do mom's listen up?
so i learned other ways to please her:
Stoicism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy, founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early third century BC. It proved to be a popular and durable philosophy, with a following throughout Greece and the Roman Empire from its founding until all the schools of philosophy were ordered closed by the Christian emperor Justinian I in the year AD 529 because of their pagan character[1]. The core doctrine of Stoicism concerns cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that virtue is to maintain a will that is in accord with nature.
In the life of the individual man, virtue is the sole good; such things as health, happiness, possessions, are of no account. Since virtue resides in the will, everything really good or bad in a man's life depends only upon himself. He may become poor, but what of it? He can still be virtuous. A tyrant may put him in prison, but he can still persevere in living in harmony with Nature. He may be sentenced to death, but he can die nobly, like Socrates. Therefore every man has perfect freedom, provided he emancipates himself from mundane desires.[2]