No Time Like The Present To Drink These Draining Seconds | The Most Secure Fortress

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. No time like the present to drink these draining seconds. It may not feel like it, but it's slipping away from you. It's slipping away from all of us. All of it.

This period of our lives and our lives themselves. The present moment is an ephemeral thing, the ancients said. There was even an expression adapted from Virgil, tempus fugit, or time flies, and it does, away from us. While we are anxiously fretting about the future or ruefully regretting the past, we are losing what is in front of us, the important conversations we aren't having, the changes we aren't making, the work we aren't investing in. Seneca talked about how death is not something in the future, but something happening right now.

We can't waste it. We can't let it pass us by. We have to live immediately, he said. We have to be here now. There is no time like the present, really, because there is no time but the present.

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