001. Seneca: On Saving Time
"What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily?" "For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands." Seneca writes of time as it was a valuable resource that should be spent with care, that should never be thoughtlessly given away, and that should never be stole from us. There will always be people who will take/steal our time; however, those who offer nothing in return for the time they take are the types to be mindful of. The length of time we have has been allocated by the fates and as it passes away it that time can never be re-lived again; in this way our past is already a death. It has passed away. "While we are postponing, life speeds by." "Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting ...