Time Is a Violent River | Stop Being Surprised By This
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Why does the host compare time to a violent river and what does that mean for daily life?
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Time is a violent river. Sometimes it really does feel like it, doesn't it? Sometimes it feels like our lives are moving so quickly, with today turning into yesterday and next week becoming last week. You wake up, you work, dinner, bed, repeat. And other times it feels like time is moving very slowly, like the day or the week or the winter won't ever end. Time never stops flowing. It never lets up. In meditations, Marx really just reminds himself not to get lost in this, to lose the perspective of what is happening. Time is a river, he writes, a violent current of events glimpsed once and already carried past us.
Another follows and is gone. Like a river, time can deceive us. From the bank the water can look almost still, but you step into it and you realize how powerful the current actually is, how quickly it is carrying everything away. Everything is moving towards a finality. We are powerless to stop this. All we can do is respect it as we would a river or any body of water. We can pay attention to where we are. We can appreciate what is passing before us. We can prepare for what is ahead. We can decide what we're going to do with the stretch of water we happen to be in. Are we spending time on things that matter? Are we present for the people we love? Are we doing the work we know we should be doing? Are we letting hour after hour, day after day simply drift past us?
The river is moving either way. That's life.
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