When a Few Years Are Gone, I Shall Go the Way of No Return

📝Reflection

Job says plainly that only a few years remain to him, and that at their end lies a way from which none return. This awareness of finitude, rather than frightening, sharpens life. Because there is no return, the bridge to be crossed now cannot be postponed. This is why the Stoics made "memento mori — remember death" a daily practice. One who knows there is an end cannot spend time carelessly. Reconcile now with those to be reconciled; say now what must be said. The very fact that there is a way of no return makes every meeting and word today as true as if it were the last.