Live as though today is your last day.
Marcus Aurelius
Today morning, at 8:00AM, The Stoic, an android application in my phone duly notified me of a quote, “Live as though today is your last day”, and that too in the right moment when I needed it the most.
Sure, I’ve heard of a paraphrased version of the same from Steve in this video who himself lost his life to a rare pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011.
Question remains. Why did i need to acknowledge and account for and absorb this beautiful maxim by Aurelius?
Because, like many of us, i had lost touch with the confinements as well as the fragility of life at the same time.
Because, like many of us, i had forgotten to appreciate life while contemplating death at the same while.
Because, like many of us, I had lost my network connection with life‘s bliss and the unmatched freedom for the web of unending, ever-expanding, forever-exploding work-work-and-more work.
Because, like many of us, I was more and more exhausted and more and more sleepless and more and more neurotic and more and more restless.
Without-a-shred of doubt, Work From Home has had an egregious impact on my mental, physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. For, in the last one week alone; the only things I actually remember are — all the shit pile of work, and responsibilities and decisions I’ve had to pull and on deliverables I’ve had to meet and meeting and justification fucker-ies, and problem solving, and the beautiful rain and chess.
That’s about it!
Clearly, I needed to recharge. Re-wind. Retrospect. Rejoice and rejuvenate.
And, sure, re-live. Re-purpose. Rest.
p.s. the why I don’t give a flying fuck about my past; the same why I have no regrets for my past, is because I’ve come to realize that life’s theatre and all the drama that goes inside this weird framework, only cares and knows about moving forward, moving strong, and moving on and on and on.
p.p.s. oh! yeah, and, I almost forgot to tell you that — for an experimentation purpose, all the things I had en-acted today on June the 25th 2020, was tethered around — living as though today matter of fact, was.my.last.
Goodnight.