I have a habit of jumping around from book to book, project to project, and timeline to timeline. This is my favorite one yet and I'm determined to stay here, now. The fight to get to the present and stay there has been rough The Stoics believe that it's important to contemplate your mortality, that doing so will help you better appreciate life and live in the present moment. I spent more than half of the last year contemplating my mortality and I can personally confirm that this method will change the way you see the world and how you interact with it. Stoics ==view death as a natural and inevitable part of life, not something to be feared but rather to be understood and accepted==. They believe that by contemplating death, one can live a more meaningful and virtuous life in the present moment. This contemplation is often framed by the concept of "[memento mori](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=656b10c93ec889a4&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS905US905&sxsrf=AE3TifPjbcv-gwxREXk7ihd8K5zdJ1jOfw%3A1755133296618&q=memento+mori&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVqbaFjYmPAxWUmmoFHWU4PdAQxccNegUI1wEQAQ&mstk=AUtExfAzBD7hS4EBnBydwp7t1Gy7aNMqc8iLGz6b4nTYFUZXelcrF9UhrIRUVVouw230LNXVrKZO95igpIGRYIyLpvI19a6eBUl7P3H7VhGnSjYM7g8hvtGauZHHLDLcoA-fCOAPjKesk2PpqtEDJSt_P4RJ31zCwxXXT-bM0byWpOHDNJoss4QUYn5yN1ZhKqTeU1s1Cj1o-i_PZi_2RvGwNvByX1TAAlCsdYNDgxjfafisIXgkvOf0sd50CJW6mBbNQKjsM_g3YQDphFvI3_XhzNqB68Vy4y8CwVffgvksyVGeyQ&csui=3)," meaning "remember you must die".