Seneca writes, “The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
In the best case scenario, let’s say we intend to live till the age of 85+.
We have curated our diets and have been following through.
We have been sleeping right on-time.
Exercise religiously. Cardio. Strength, you name it.
We have been saving for our foreseeable retirement.
We are walking on egg-shells … walking down a made-up narrow path of discipline, restrain and shallow limited-ness.
We surrender freewill.
Sacrifice freedom — in hopes of being able to live and being to die pain-free, carefree old-self.
Essentially, we are dying like the likes of burning candle in ropes and ways to optimize for our perfect 80s, all while
failing to realize that life is freaking happening right here, right now, in the moment as you read, as we breathe.
May God save us from our stupidity.
Namaste.