Stoic Coffee Break

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”– SenecaDo you think too much about the future that you are not living in today?This quote from Seneca hits two really great points of the Stoics.Momento Mori, remember you will die, and because we could die at any moment, there really is no other time than now. There is now and not now.Amor Fati, love your fate. Because we have so little control over what happens to us in life, worrying about the future is worrying about something that may never happen.So when you think about it, the only thing you have control over is your choices at this moment.Many of the great philosophies and religi