Live Now, While You Still Can
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
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We only get one life. Once time ticks by, it never comes back.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. It's late at night and you're scrolling through your feeds when all of a sudden you see it, that one product that you've been looking for. You click on the link, add to cart, maybe even shop around a little more before finally hitting checkout. As you're filling in your address, you realize you don't have your card anywhere near you. That's when you see it, that purple pay button that has all of your |
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| 1:34.2 | We're busy, we're tired. We have so much to do. We had dreams once, sure, but they slowly deflated. |
| 1:41.1 | The mortgage, the kids, the job, watching TV, that's how we fill our days. |
| 1:45.8 | It's a slow downward spiral that Bruce Springsteen sang about in racing in the street. |
| 1:51.7 | Some guys, they just give up living, he sang, and start dying little by little, piece by piece. |
| 1:58.1 | If you're not that guy, you at least know him or her. They're the mainstay of |
| 2:02.7 | the modern world, overworked, under-sexed, overtired, and underappreciated. Facebook is to blame, |
| 2:08.8 | right? The capitalist pigs are responsible, yeah, it's because of the 24-hour news cycle. Certainly |
| 2:14.7 | none of those things help. But the truth is that this is a timeless problem. |
| 2:19.4 | It goes back much further than Bruce or even this century, because Seneca spoke about those guys too. |
| 2:26.1 | How much time has been lost to groundless anguish, he writes. Greedy desire, the charms of society, |
| 2:32.3 | how little is left to you from your own store of time. |
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