Posts Tagged ‘memento vitae’
The tension of meaning
Visiting the seemingly-opposing views of living a “meaningful life” and a life of “meaninglessness” is one of my favorite and fruitful thought-experiments. I love to spend time gazing at the stars, realizing that there are billions of them and that I am relatively insignificant as an individual. There is freedom in finding solace with the…
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Memento vitae
Some lessons are worth relearning every day and as often as possible. For instance, the concept of memento mori. By remembering death, life becomes more valuable. A powerful spin on this is memento amore perit. Those we love can die at any moment. And if it happened, I can imagine begging for even my least…
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