M07 · Mortality and Finitude
Postponing life and wasted years
Deferring real living to a future retirement or milestone, and reckoning with years already lost.
Cues
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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”