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A MEDITATION

“ It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

— Seneca

On the Shortness of Life 1

On mortality

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A reflection

The time isn't the problem — the leaks are. Scrolling, arguing, delaying, drifting. Plug the leaks and the same sixty or eighty years suddenly look very spacious. Nobody was robbed; we just didn't guard the pocket.

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