Don’t Sit on the Sidelines, Do This Instead But you can control how you use your time right now. It’s useless to be afraid of death because you can’t control when it happens. In your case, why not reverse the mortality equation? Why not live like you’ll die tomorrow? Because you’re afraid. Time feels like “house money” after I’ve done that. Seneca also says “Life is long if you know how to use it.” I do what I love almost every day. But you fear death less the more fully you live in the present. Give me a few more books, milestones, moments of meaning, and memories with people I love. I’m guessing that within a few years I’ll reach the point where I’d be okay if I died. This actually causes me to fear death less. I often find myself working like I’ll die tomorrow. The useful truth I live by is the reverse of Seneca’s quote. We tend to reverse the useful truth to suit our egos. You’re afraid of death, yet you act like you have unlimited time to live. “You are mortal in everything you fear and immortal in everything you desire” - Seneca Sometimes it’s tragic simply because you waste it and don’t realize that until it’s way too late. I build my life around the ethos of increasing my meaningful time and decreasing the trivialities I have to deal with. When I enter that flow state, I get to retreat from the chaos of life and do something that (to me at least) means something. You know what I love most about writing? I get to escape the noise. the amount of time you spent letting life’s trivialities swallow you whole. Think of how much time you spend on meaningful activities vs. Office politics at work, your commute, errands, meaningless news, gossip, tiny bouts of envy, social media, so it goes. Little petty annoyances cumulatively throw our lives off-balance. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” - Charles Bukowskiīig challenges don’t trip us up. “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. Instead, I’m only going to use quotes I can recall from memory, talk about how I’ve used them in my life, and provide ways for you to do the same. I could easily look up some quotes and slap them into a blog post. I’ve collected quotes I come back to time and time again when my life isn’t aligned, I need a reminder, or simply want to reflect on the beauty of life itself. The wisdom of quotes is extremely powerful when applied. You can do one of two things with a quote - use it as inspirational fluff to post on Instagram or use the insight to change your life. ![]() But I also understand how simultaneously insightful and useless they can be. Life quotes are the swords that cut the Gordian knots of noise and reveal the essence of life we know deep down but tend to forget. Life quotes have a way of piercing through the b.s. 10 Life Quotes That (If Applied) Will Change the Way You See The World Forever
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