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life is too short to rush through. You look around and you see people Russian everywhere, rushing through traffic rushing to get their kids down to bed. No, time to talk, no time to sit. There's too much to do there is somewhere to go and the faster the better. This was as true in the ancient world as it is. Today in Rome, people were rushing to get their mail Russian to win the next public office Russian to the next round of the games in the Colosseum Russian to their next big accomplishment. Or at least
That's what they thought. Seneca makes the point. However, that what we are really rushing towards with all deliberate speed is death, that's what he means. When he says that we get death, wrong death is not some distant thing in the future. Some Lumen end date to which the proper is response is to try to squeeze in as much stuff as possible before it comes instead. He said death is something happening to you right now, it's happening. As you read this email, it's happening, as you listen to this podcast. I hope it's been worth it.
It's happening. As you struggle to put your daughter's shoes on. So you can drop her off at school and then it's happening, still more. As you sit down to that coffee meeting, you rush to even though you know you didn't want to have it in the first place. The time that passes Seneca reminds us is death. It belongs to death, you'll never get to live, what has been lived back. So why are you rushing? Why are you thinking about the future? At the expense of the present? Life is too short to be lived in Fast Forward, slow down, breathe it in
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