Time Is a Violent River | Stop Being Surprised By This

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. But time never stops flowing, it never lets up. In meditations, Marx reallyus 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, how everything is moving towards a finality. We are powerless to stop this.

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