"Before We Knew It Was Passing"
Dying Every Day (Dying Daily)
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Dying Every Day is a podcast by the Perennial Leader Project. Each episode turns a selected passage from Stoic philosophy into a guided meditation designed to help you (and me) learn how to live.
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“Before We Knew It Was Passing”
Welcome to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.
In this first episode of Dying Daily, a new occasional and much more casual series on the podcast, we sit with a question that most of us already know the answer to, but haven't done anything about: who are we taking for granted?
You may have seen Eric Church's recent commencement address at UNC-Chapel Hill. If not, it’s worth watching. Church warns a graduating class not to turn the people they love into holiday strings—the ones who understand when you're too busy, whom you keep meaning to call, whom you'll see at Christmas. Interestingly, Seneca made the same argument two thousand years ago: life feels short because we give our time to everything that demands it, while the people who matter most get what's left over.
This episode is intended to be a conversation and an invitation to choose differently—today, before the day is over, with whoever has been sitting at the back of your mind waiting for a moment that never quite arrives.
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Thank you for reading/listening; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well.
J.W.
P.S. Catch up on recent (and past) meditations in the archive!
This was beautiful and hit the spot. Today I will make that call that I have been contemplating but avoiding for the past few weeks. 🙏
So true- give some of the attention to those who will appreciate it the most but may expect it the least