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Bozoma Saint John on the Power of Embracing Memento Mori

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Urge to Have Life

I think what I'm saying is that, okay. If you knew for certain that the world was coming to an end tomorrow, there's a certain amount of desperation that comes there because there's nothing you can do about it. Actual life is more like you don't know if an asteroid is coming tomorrow, right? So you have to live urgently, but you don't live so urgently that you are caught off guard if you happen to wake up the day after. Because you're operating as if time is of the essence. But if you known for certain an asteroid was coming, time is really not of the essence anymore because kind of nothing matters. Like it's definitely... Exactly. Time

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