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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Don't die before your time. We're busy, we're tired, we have so much to do. We had dreams once sure, but they slowly deflated.

The mortgage, the kids, the job, watching TV, that's how we fill our days. It's a slow downward spiral that Bruce Springsteen sang about in racing in the street. Some guys, they just give up living, he sang, and start dying a little by little. Peace by peace.

If you're not that guy, you at least know him or her. They're the mainstay of the modern world, overworked, undersexed, over tired, and underappreciated.

Facebook is to blame, right? The capitalist pigs are responsible, yeah, it's because of the 24 hour news cycle. Certainly none of those things help, but the truth is that this is a timeless problem. It goes back much further than Bruce or even this century.

Because Seneca spoke about those guys too. How much time has been lost to groundless anguish, he writes.

Greedy desire, the charms of society. How little is left to you from your own store of time. Wake up, he says, stop sleepwalking. Stop giving away what you can never give back.

That's from his essay, The Shortness of Life, where he tries to get the reader as Bruce Springsteen does in his best songs to realize that you are dying before your time.

We only get one life. Once time ticks by, it never comes back. Yes, each of us will die, that's a fact. But for the moment we are alive, which is why we have to live, which is why we have to protect our time, our dreams, and our spirit.

We can't give it up piece by piece. We can't start dying before our time. We have to live now while we still can.

Hey everyone, remember Marcus really said that you could leave life right now, and that's why you must let that thought determine what you do and say and think.

That's why we made our Memento Mori pendants, so you can wear it, you can have that thought close to your heart at all times.

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It starts off promising. Or is this all just about Elon?

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he wouldn't expect them to. But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

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