Get Narrow Before Life Does

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2:26Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2 ,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. Get narrow before life does. At the very end of his life, we know that Marcus Aurelius was making arrangements for many guardians, among whom were numbered to be the best men in the Senate to look after his kids. We know that at the end of his life, Seneca was with his wife, Paulina, hugging her and urging her calmly not to grieve for him too much and to live on without him.

3:08We know that Cato spent his final night hosting friends and family for dinner. Wine was poured, dice were rolled, plates were passed, and philosophy was discussed, because in the end it was friendship and being together that counted. It's interesting that these three great Stoics spent their final moments not as lone wolves, but as friends, as fathers, as people who loved their fellow human beings. On a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast with the comedian Christina P., which you should listen to if you haven't, I'll link to it, she tells this story of an experience that led to a similar insight.

3:41So I broke my ankle two years ago, and I talk about this on my last special, but I read a joke about it. But the truth is they gave me a shit ton of ketamine. And in my K-hole, as they call it, I've never done ketamine before, I was deeply tripping. And I thought I was dying. I really did. I was like, I think this is it, man. And I wasn't thinking about my career. I wasn't stoked that I had so many specials on Netflix or that I had this successful anything. I was literally thinking about my children and my husband, my children and my husband. And it got real narrow real quick. And I came out of that.

4:19And anytime I catch myself getting on this kick of like, I should be bigger. I should do arenas too. I should be, I go like, oh, I'm going to die. And it doesn't matter. And my kids are the only ones who are really going to give a shit anyway. This is not to say that you shouldn't strive to be successful. It's not to say that you can't be ambitious. It is first a reminder that the things we chase don't matter as much as we think they do. In fact, they only seem to matter because we have taken other things for granted, namely life and time. The second is a reminder that when life gets real, our priorities get narrow real quick.

4:54We realize what's actually important. We become present. We become grateful. Don't let injury or death be the clarity that you need here. You can have it now. You can act on it today.

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