Donald Robertson

Why am I working long hours? It's for something deeper. It's in order to be a good person and a good parent and a good husband and stuff like that. And I think one of the things that can help us achieve that realization and question the prevailing values of our society is

Why am I working long hours? It's for something deeper. It's in order to be a good person and a good parent and a good husband and stuff like that. And I think one of the things that can help us achieve that realization and question the prevailing values of our society is

is death because many people I think for whatever reason on their deathbed when they look back over the course of their life think is it really worth spending your life just trying to earn as much money as possible Was that what, in retrospect, my life should have been about? Was writing a best-selling book or something really the most important thing?

is death because many people I think for whatever reason on their deathbed when they look back over the course of their life think is it really worth spending your life just trying to earn as much money as possible Was that what, in retrospect, my life should have been about? Was writing a best-selling book or something really the most important thing?

is death because many people I think for whatever reason on their deathbed when they look back over the course of their life think is it really worth spending your life just trying to earn as much money as possible Was that what, in retrospect, my life should have been about? Was writing a best-selling book or something really the most important thing?

Or does that seem trivial in retrospect when you've only got a few days left to live or something like that? But, I mean, if you're lucky, maybe you have a brush with death early on and survive and it changes your perspective and it liberates you from these assumptions that we all have. Or sometimes when you're bereaved,

Or does that seem trivial in retrospect when you've only got a few days left to live or something like that? But, I mean, if you're lucky, maybe you have a brush with death early on and survive and it changes your perspective and it liberates you from these assumptions that we all have. Or sometimes when you're bereaved,

Or does that seem trivial in retrospect when you've only got a few days left to live or something like that? But, I mean, if you're lucky, maybe you have a brush with death early on and survive and it changes your perspective and it liberates you from these assumptions that we all have. Or sometimes when you're bereaved,

like you know i lost my father when i was quite young and i thought to be honest that really shook me and made me kind of question what's the point of all of that because i saw him um he died of lung cancer like he was bedridden for about a year and so i had about a year just to observe my father dying slowly and think he seemed to be going through this process of questioning what his life had stood for and so when i was like 13 14 years old that kind of made me think gee i don't want to end up like that

like you know i lost my father when i was quite young and i thought to be honest that really shook me and made me kind of question what's the point of all of that because i saw him um he died of lung cancer like he was bedridden for about a year and so i had about a year just to observe my father dying slowly and think he seemed to be going through this process of questioning what his life had stood for and so when i was like 13 14 years old that kind of made me think gee i don't want to end up like that

like you know i lost my father when i was quite young and i thought to be honest that really shook me and made me kind of question what's the point of all of that because i saw him um he died of lung cancer like he was bedridden for about a year and so i had about a year just to observe my father dying slowly and think he seemed to be going through this process of questioning what his life had stood for and so when i was like 13 14 years old that kind of made me think gee i don't want to end up like that

like at the end of my life thinking maybe i've spent my time and energy in the wrong way so these things and also sometimes i think having children and looking at your kids and thinking what you want for them and what values you want them to have if we approach it in the right way can help us to gain some insight and start to question what our values are but if we don't do that we just look around us think everybody's obsessed with money and fame and

like at the end of my life thinking maybe i've spent my time and energy in the wrong way so these things and also sometimes i think having children and looking at your kids and thinking what you want for them and what values you want them to have if we approach it in the right way can help us to gain some insight and start to question what our values are but if we don't do that we just look around us think everybody's obsessed with money and fame and

like at the end of my life thinking maybe i've spent my time and energy in the wrong way so these things and also sometimes i think having children and looking at your kids and thinking what you want for them and what values you want them to have if we approach it in the right way can help us to gain some insight and start to question what our values are but if we don't do that we just look around us think everybody's obsessed with money and fame and

you know we end up entering into the rat race chasing around after that then one day you end up in your deathbed and the doctors tell you you've only got you know a few weeks left and you think you look back on you think what a huge waste of time a lot of that was like you know maybe i've got like you know millions of dollars in my bank account but it's not you know you can't take it with you like you know does it really do anything that worthwhile in retrospect so that's why i

you know we end up entering into the rat race chasing around after that then one day you end up in your deathbed and the doctors tell you you've only got you know a few weeks left and you think you look back on you think what a huge waste of time a lot of that was like you know maybe i've got like you know millions of dollars in my bank account but it's not you know you can't take it with you like you know does it really do anything that worthwhile in retrospect so that's why i

you know we end up entering into the rat race chasing around after that then one day you end up in your deathbed and the doctors tell you you've only got you know a few weeks left and you think you look back on you think what a huge waste of time a lot of that was like you know maybe i've got like you know millions of dollars in my bank account but it's not you know you can't take it with you like you know does it really do anything that worthwhile in retrospect so that's why i

ancient philosophy is kind of obsessed with this question of death now the other thing that could help us would be reading about philosophers who contemplate the problem of our own mortality like that's why plato's apology is so influential because it depicts socrates standing in court knowing he's about to be executed can you tell us the the story of the end of socrates life what happened what was the build-up why did it occur

ancient philosophy is kind of obsessed with this question of death now the other thing that could help us would be reading about philosophers who contemplate the problem of our own mortality like that's why plato's apology is so influential because it depicts socrates standing in court knowing he's about to be executed can you tell us the the story of the end of socrates life what happened what was the build-up why did it occur

ancient philosophy is kind of obsessed with this question of death now the other thing that could help us would be reading about philosophers who contemplate the problem of our own mortality like that's why plato's apology is so influential because it depicts socrates standing in court knowing he's about to be executed can you tell us the the story of the end of socrates life what happened what was the build-up why did it occur