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It is Monday; your calendar is full, but the one thing you want to do most … is not in your calendar. You may have a conversation that you keep putting off, or you may be doing the work that matters (to you) beneath all of the requests and updates coming in. Maybe you need an hour of rest to allow you to meet all of your obligations adequately?
The problem isn’t that you have forgotten that you’re going to die someday; you already know that. Your problem is that when your calendar is so crowded, you can quickly start thinking that borrowed urgency is more important than living the life you’re choosing. This is where the use of “Memento Mori” becomes important, as it is a way to think about how to spend an ordinary day.
So:
Which part of this week would I still choose if I remembered that my time is limited?
