What’s gone is gone, but don’t waste time worrying about that. Or on what comes next. The ideal way to age is to be in the moment
rguably the most useless observation ever made by an ancient Greek philosopher – putting aside, for now, Pythagoras’s theory that– was Epicurus’s argument that we shouldn’t fear death, because we won’t be around when it happens. Nobody gets upset about the fact that they didn’t exist before their birth, he reasoned, so why feel bad about the fact that you won’t exist again soon?
As if it weren’t cruel enough that your time is running out, you’ll also experience your dwindling years as passing more quickly What’s truly noteworthy about the awareness of finitude, though, isn’t the fact that it eventually grips most of us by the throat but that we manage to stave it off for so long. After all, from the viewpoint of the cosmos, a 10-year-old who is destined to live to 90 is only a tiny bit further from the end than they’ll be when they’re 80.
It’s hard to shake the outlook entirely. But getting older helps, because the awareness that time is drawing to a close makes it increasingly untenable to live for the future. At 20, it’s easy to imagine that real life hasn’t properly begun, but at 40, it’s a bit of a stretch, and at 60 it’s plainly absurd. And so it becomes ever easier to face what was true all along: that this is real life.
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