December 1st, 2021
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 the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time.
Our messages for December have us meditating upon mortality. This topic feels somber, gut wrenching, taboo. It is a subject young people don't give a second and older adults avoid.
Personally, my struggles with mortality ebb and flow like waves on a beach. I find comfort through faith and then cringe about the philosophical impact of eternity.
What I am sure of right now is that mortality has become a subject I am more confident to talk about. While I have not completed the finishing touches to this life, they are in the works.
"The Daily Stoic" provide a great example, to be like the soldier headed off to war. We want to let our intentions known in case we do not return, but we still intend on returning. It is a somber reminder that we should all share our plans with the ones we love in the event we are taken suddenly.
Living your life like each day is like you last is not a mantra to be used to do what the flesh desires, but instead a reminder to get your life in order, so you can have comfort in knowing your life can end as you will it.