2000 years ago, Seneca wrote about the shortness of life, but how modern his advice sounds. This particular passage actually made me laugh out loud…..
you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had a long voyage who had been caught in a raging storm as he left harbor, and carried hither and thither and driven round and round in a circle by the rage of opposing winds? He did not have a long voyage, just a long tossing about.
So my white hair and wrinkles don’t speak of my life, just the time I’ve been around here on Planet Earth! How often do we have that experience that life is not so much a journey, more a “long tossing about”!
Sticking with the journey idea, I also really love this thought –
Just as travelers are beguiled by conversation or reading or some profound meditation, and find they have arrived at their destination before they knew they were approaching it; so it is with this unceasing and extremely fast-moving journey of life, which waking or sleeping we make at the same pace — the preoccupied become aware of it only when it is over.
A core value underpinning this whole blog is choosing to live, choosing to be aware of our constant becoming, choosing to be aware of the “émerveillement du quotidien” – the wonder and amazement of the every day.
Heroes Not Zombies 
Great blog 🙂