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Good morning, Prokaptan. Welcome back to practical stoicism. I hope you're doing well.

We're coming up on the end of the year, and I am working on the words I need to say thank you to all of you.

I suspect that the New Year's Eve episode will just be a bunch of thank yous, but until then,

thank you for your support this year. And today we're going

to be working through Meditation 35 of book number four. But before we do that, I just want to let you know,

today I'm going to release one of those little special message episodes that I do sometimes to let

you know about some cool new things I've got going on, some new people who are joining the team

here at Practical Stoicism. So be on the lookout for that. I don't want to include it here,

because you already have to listen to the ads and I don't want to make it any longer until we

get to the content, which reads as follows today. Everything is only for a day, both that

which remembers and that which is remembered.

Rounding out what seems to have thus far been a week about remembering our temporality,

Marcus is reminding us, once more, of our temporality.

But he's focusing on one specific aspect of it this time around, and perhaps making

us think in a way that finds us finally understanding the idea of temporality fully and once and for

all. It's not just the things which people remember that are eventually forgotten. It's the people

who remember those things themselves as well. No matter how famous

you become, every generation remembers you a little less because fewer individual people will have

cause to remember you. As I've said before, your kids will remember you, and their kids as well.

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