It's Not That We Have a Short Time to Live, But That We Waste a Lot of It

"'On The Shortness of Life' is one of Lucius Seneca’s most famous letters. It’s valuable to read it whenever you feel the urge to succumb to social pressure and treat time as less valuable than income. Time is non-renewable, and 'On The Shortness of Life' helps put this in a practical context, as relevant now as it was nearly 2,000 years ago."