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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight in wisdom every day 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.

Life is too short to rush through. You look around and you see people rushing everywhere, rushing through traffic, rushing to get their kids down to bed. No time to talk, no time to sit.

There's too much to do. There is somewhere to go and the faster the better. This was as true in the ancient world as it is today. In Rome people were rushing to get their male, rushing to win the next public office, rushing to the next round of the games and the Coliseum, rushing to their next big accomplishment.

Or at least that's what they thought.

Seneca makes the point however that what we are really rushing towards with all deliberate speed is death. That's what he means when he says that we get death wrong. Death is not some distant thing in the future, some looming end date to which the proper response is to try to squeeze in as much stuff as possible before it comes.

Instead he said death is something happening to you right now. It's happening as you read this email. It's happening as you listen to this podcast. I hope it's been worth it.

It's happening as you struggle to put your daughter shoes on so you can drop her off at school. And then it's happening still more as you sit down to that coffee meeting you rush to even though you know you didn't want to have it in the first place.

The time that passes Seneca reminds us is death. It belongs to death. You'll never get to live what has been lived back. So why are you rushing? Why are you thinking about the future at the expense of the present?

Life is too short to be lived in fast forward. Slow down. Breathe it in. Enjoy it.

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