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“This is not the body your mother gave birth to,” the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in a seemingly strange entry in his journal.
But wasn’t he right? Our cells are constantly being replaced. The childhood you, physically and psychologically, is, in a sense, dead. Today’s you will be gone before long. You’re not the person you were yesterday.
It’s as the philosopher Heraclitus said: “No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.”
If we’re always dying and being reborn, and never truly do the same thing twice, there’s only sane one response: don’t miss a moment of it.
This may be your last time to experience this as you are, so don’t let it slip away while you’re distracted. Live well while you have life.