planningguy
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I just thought I would throw this out there. I had a rough night, turned into a crappy day, and was in one of those, "What else can it be moments," when I read the following from one of my favorite authors:
"Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no life except the one he loses. This means that the longest life and the shortest amount to the same thing. For the passing minute is every man’s equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours. Our loss, therefore, is limited to that one fleeting instant, since no one can lose what is already past, nor yet what is still to come…
…the sole thing which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his."
Perhaps a verbose way of saying "one day at a time," or "Live each day as though it is the last," but it was what I needed at the time. Just thought I'd share.
Take care,
Robert
"Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no life except the one he loses. This means that the longest life and the shortest amount to the same thing. For the passing minute is every man’s equal possession, but what has once gone by is not ours. Our loss, therefore, is limited to that one fleeting instant, since no one can lose what is already past, nor yet what is still to come…
…the sole thing which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his."
Perhaps a verbose way of saying "one day at a time," or "Live each day as though it is the last," but it was what I needed at the time. Just thought I'd share.
Take care,
Robert