Ryan Holiday

You're gonna spend more of it looks maxing.

I mean, it is funny that people who use their time the worst seem to be most intent on getting more and more of it.

Seneca talked about elderly people who all they have to show for their age is a number of years.

Like all they have is this number, not anything concrete or meaningful.

And he also said it's precisely wrong to think of death as this thing in the future that you are trying to avoid or that we are moving slowly towards.

He said death isn't then, death is now.

He said the time that passes belongs to death.

He wanted us to understand that we are dying every minute

and we are dying every day.

Time that has passed is dead.

We will never get it back.

And so the time people spend frivolously chasing vanity, logging on the internet, chasing followers and fans and compliments, this is silly.

You are paying for that with this thing which you are supposedly saying is so precious to you.

your life so the stoics want us to remember yes of course health is important function is important death is bad in the sense that we should try to resist it as much as possible and yet it follows us everywhere it is the only thing that is truly invincible that is truly undefeated

And that we must live immediately, as Seneca says.

We must live while we can.

We must be good while we can.

We must be beautiful while we can.

And we must seize what actually belongs to us, which is our uniqueness, which is our character, which is, as the Stoics would say, our ability to choose well.

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