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It's kind of a funny tradition when you think about it, isn't it?

How we stay up late each year and count down the final seconds of the year together.

Five, four, three, two, one, happy new year.

We cheer, we celebrate. It's a big show to mark the end, the year,

but how many of us in a rush for a kiss or as the glasses clink together really feel what's

just happened? Those seconds we were counting down where seconds will never get back, our time here,

tick, ticking tick, ticking away.

A year of our lives is gone forever.

Tempus fuget.

Memento Mori.

The Stoaks did not take note of how fast time flies in the shortness of life to be morbid.

No, they sought invigoration, they sought perspective,

they sought clarity. Seneca said that if you went to bed thinking that you would live your whole life,

the morning would feel like a bonus. We can apply the same thinking annually. Who we were in

2025 is dead and gone. Here we are lucky enough

to rise again in 2026, a year that perhaps many of us did not ever expect to see. We have beaten

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