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peacebeard ◴[23 Oct 25 22:46 UTC] No.45688386[source]▶
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”

― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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kadoban ◴[23 Oct 25 22:57 UTC] No.45688489[source]▶
The heedless luxury and "no good activity" are some of the better parts of life.

Personally I live for the every day, I'm not worrying too much about what I will regret for a few hours on my last day(s) if I even make it there.

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1. mastazi ◴[23 Oct 25 23:13 UTC] No.45688660[source]▶
As a teen I attended a school with a curriculum focused on classical studies (Italian "Liceo Classico") and reading your comment I immediately thought "Oh, this commenter must be from the Epicurean School" LOL

Some quotes by Epicurus:

> Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

> The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments.

And this absolute banger:

> Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

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2. PaulDavisThe1st ◴[23 Oct 25 23:21 UTC] No.45688723[source]▶
Death is not a concern. Dying is. For most of us, dying is an extended (often multi-year) process, not some instantaneous transformation from existence to non-existence.
3. kadoban ◴[24 Oct 25 02:11 UTC] No.45689974[source]▶
Yes, exactly, thank you! I have a terrible memory for names and specific quotes, but those ideas stuck with me quite well from my days of studying philosophy. The last one definitely heavily impacted my thoughts on death and dying back when death was a dreaded, distant destination.