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A Year of Contemplation

Pretend Today is The End (Day 335)

12/1/2019

 
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Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day… The one who puts finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.”
Seneca, Moral Letters, 101.7b-8a

​So many of us use or have used the cliche, “live today as if it were your last”, right? However, do those of us who say things like that ACTUALLY do what we say? I mean, is living that way even reasonable? What about laws? What about the autonomy of others? The end of the world isn’t going to be all orgies and misrule (I hope).

The mindset of memento mori is less like civilians having all the rules and laws binding society and culture dissolved. Living today like it’s your last is more akin to a soldier about to be shipped out on deployment: handling business, getting affairs in order, connecting with loved ones. No fighting. Nothing petty. No bullshit or ego.

When it comes time for them to ship out, in their hearts is this: even if we don’t come back, at least I’m not leaving anything undone or unsaid.

Gods be good, we can all live that way, everyday.

(See y’all tomorrow)

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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