As we get into the later years of our lives, after we’ve misplaced a mum or dad (or each) and various faculty pals, we begin to think about, maybe for the primary time, our personal mortality.
Dylan Thomas is finest remembered for his poem that begins: Don’t go mild into that good night time, Previous age ought to burn and rave at shut of day; Rage, rage in opposition to the dying of the sunshine.
As proven at left, nonetheless, the Stoics had a far completely different, and, I’d counsel, more healthy method to that occasion that finally confronts all of us.
Their Latin saying, Memento mori, “keep in mind that you [have to] die’, could sound equally macabre, nevertheless it carries the identical life affirming idea as does “Carpe diem.” Make each second rely, towards no matter you want to obtain for your self, and/or for these round you.
