“Do not live as if you had a thousand years before you. Death hangs over you.”Marcus Aurelius · Gânduri către sine · 180 · Cartea IV, 17
The time you postpone with your life never comes back; live today, not when things calm down.
Marcus Aurelius offers no macabre warning but a calculation: if you assume you have thousands of years, you will postpone forgiveness, love, the important work. The truth is that your time is an unknown and probably small sum. Whoever writes one daily journal line about what truly matters lives more densely than someone planning a hypothetical future.
Why it matters It strikes exactly at the habit of postponing relationships and decisions that matter, "once life calms down."