Of Fame. Take a look at the minds of her suitors, their ambitions and their aversions. Furthermore, reflect how speedily in this life the things of today are buried under those of tomorrow , even as one layer of drifting sand is covered by the next. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7:34 …
Time goes in one way, so life is just a series of NOWs. At some point they all pass, and are all in the past. So though the past does create you, what if you couldn’t actually look back on it? A short relationship with someone or a long one would make …
If you drop your phone and the screen breaks, or you have to pay a late fee on your credit card repayment, your car breaks down, or you miss the bus, or even some even more serious shit happens, remember this… the entire history of earth and its future, all …
I’ve said it before and I’ll say one more time right up in here right here right now: travelling through time is god damn freaking hard. And when those pesky physicists finally figure out how to do it, you can bet your sweet bippy it’s going to cost more than a train …
‘If thou wouldst know contentment, let thy deeds be few’, said the sage. – Marcus Aurelius, from Meditations Yesterday, my mate Matt wrote about taking your time, not wasting it. in 2016, I read about 10 books. And this year… well, WOWEE, the total number of books I’ve read is: Blah blah …
How many times have you heard or been told to take your time? How often have you made yourself feel rushed to complete a task you then haven’t completed fully or properly, and then had to start the whole process again? How many times have you taken a shortcut that’s …
If someone responds to the question, ‘Why do you want to do that?’ with: ‘To challenge myself’, what does that actually mean? One of my mentors a student to task over exactly that and then followed up asking her, ‘Is the point of challenging yourself just to challenge yourself?’ The power …
You know that hugeass, hotass, bright thing in the sky… It’s 4.6 billion years old. But in just over another 4.6 billion years it’s going to collapse in on itself, become a giant red star, possibly even consume Earth and then, See ya later. Even it’s going to be gone. ‘Even …
Blink. Done? Okay, so in an average life of 75 years you’ve got 2.4 billion seconds. A blink of your eyes takes about half a second. So, say your life is the history of Earth (4.5 billion years)… then your entire existence on it is nothing but One. Single. Blink. Or one 4-and-a-half …
You can make as much money as you can or buy or collect as many things as you want but there’s one thing that can’t be recovered. The thing that once you waste, you can’t get back: time. How much closer would we be to the life we want if we didn’t waste …
