If We Were Dying, It Would Be Easier | What Grief Teaches Us About Being Alive
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. If we were dying It would be easier.
If we knew we had terminal cancer, if we were mortally wounded or being deployed to a war or the world was ending. It would put everything in perspective, right? We would get our affairs in order, we would say what needed to be said, we would stop wasting time, we would let go of our grievances. It would be immediately clarifying, it would reorder our priorities, it would force us to get serious. If only we could, as Marcus Aurelius said, let everything we do and say be that of a dying person, then we will get so much more right.
Well, the good news and the bad news, according to Seneca, is that we are a dying person. We are dying every minute, he said, dying every day. Little by little we are losing the life we have left. It's just that we don't realize it. We forget.
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