we don't know how much time we have left,
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:28 am
So it's ultimately up to us to decide to make each moment a quality moment. I think you'll agree with me. And we must therefore not try to escape from certain moments or see them as wasted moments, to get rid of them as quickly as possible.
If we go back to what I was saying earlier about household chores, for example, if we have to put things away, if we have to clear the table, we shouldn't say to ourselves: "Hey, that's a moment... it's not quality time, it's wasted time, I have to get rid of that moment." No, we can use it because ultimately, these moments are given to us and they are the only ones we have. The next 5 minutes are the only 5 minutes I'll have and it's up to me to make 5 quality minutes of them. No one can say: "Well, there you go, Johan, today, out of 24 hours, you'll have 12 hours of quality, 12 hours of non-quality." That's not how it works. So we ultimately have to use all the moments we have.
Unfortunately, but we know that these moments are limited. There is the famous Stoic adage, once again used by the Romans, "memento mori", which means "remember that you are mortal" and which encourages us to say "life being finite, there is an end, make the most of it".
And one of the keys to happiness is ultimately knowing that there is a finiteness, knowing that life will end. If we were immortal, what would make us want to get out of bed tomorrow? Because we would say to ourselves: "Well, I can stay in bed all day doing nothing. In any case, my time is infinite." No, the fact that spain whatsapp number data time is finite, that we are already certain that we are going to die, that pushes us to do more and that must really push us to use all these moments and not waste any of them.
There's another Latin expression that Ryan uses in this video, which I think is good, in addition to memento mori, it's "tempus fugit", which means time flies. And it's more commonly translated into French as "time flies". So it was a bit of a recurring theme in antiquity to say "remember that you are mortal, time flies". And here, the idea is this, eh, tempus fugit, so time flies, time flies, enjoy the moments that you have. And so this little Latin expression, it comes from antiquity. And in antiquity, they used these things a lot. You've certainly heard of Horace's "carpe diem". Carpe diem means seize the day, so enjoy the moment that you have.
So you see that with all this ancient wisdom, it's been over 2000 years that these things have been said, we can say to ourselves: "OK. There is no quality time, let's enjoy every moment."
And in a way, it's something that I was already doing a little intuitively in some ways. For example, I take my daughter Emma to swimming three times a week, I take my son Tom twice a week. And so, I spend a lot of time in the car with them. For fencing, I spend 40 minutes each way, so that's an hour and 20 minutes in the car with Tom. Twice a week, that's 2 hours and 40 minutes, so almost 3 hours. And I said to myself... I've always had this mentality of saying to myself: "Hey, these are special moments to spend with my son Tom or with my daughter Emma", because we are alone each time and there is a difference between being alone with one of your children or being with the whole family.
So I try to have… I already had that mentality before I heard Ryan's video. And of course, I try to extend it as much as possible because time is running out, folks, and so you have to seize the day, carpe diem.
And we find this in many other philosophies. Buddhism, for example, always tells us, even t
If we go back to what I was saying earlier about household chores, for example, if we have to put things away, if we have to clear the table, we shouldn't say to ourselves: "Hey, that's a moment... it's not quality time, it's wasted time, I have to get rid of that moment." No, we can use it because ultimately, these moments are given to us and they are the only ones we have. The next 5 minutes are the only 5 minutes I'll have and it's up to me to make 5 quality minutes of them. No one can say: "Well, there you go, Johan, today, out of 24 hours, you'll have 12 hours of quality, 12 hours of non-quality." That's not how it works. So we ultimately have to use all the moments we have.
Unfortunately, but we know that these moments are limited. There is the famous Stoic adage, once again used by the Romans, "memento mori", which means "remember that you are mortal" and which encourages us to say "life being finite, there is an end, make the most of it".
And one of the keys to happiness is ultimately knowing that there is a finiteness, knowing that life will end. If we were immortal, what would make us want to get out of bed tomorrow? Because we would say to ourselves: "Well, I can stay in bed all day doing nothing. In any case, my time is infinite." No, the fact that spain whatsapp number data time is finite, that we are already certain that we are going to die, that pushes us to do more and that must really push us to use all these moments and not waste any of them.
There's another Latin expression that Ryan uses in this video, which I think is good, in addition to memento mori, it's "tempus fugit", which means time flies. And it's more commonly translated into French as "time flies". So it was a bit of a recurring theme in antiquity to say "remember that you are mortal, time flies". And here, the idea is this, eh, tempus fugit, so time flies, time flies, enjoy the moments that you have. And so this little Latin expression, it comes from antiquity. And in antiquity, they used these things a lot. You've certainly heard of Horace's "carpe diem". Carpe diem means seize the day, so enjoy the moment that you have.
So you see that with all this ancient wisdom, it's been over 2000 years that these things have been said, we can say to ourselves: "OK. There is no quality time, let's enjoy every moment."
And in a way, it's something that I was already doing a little intuitively in some ways. For example, I take my daughter Emma to swimming three times a week, I take my son Tom twice a week. And so, I spend a lot of time in the car with them. For fencing, I spend 40 minutes each way, so that's an hour and 20 minutes in the car with Tom. Twice a week, that's 2 hours and 40 minutes, so almost 3 hours. And I said to myself... I've always had this mentality of saying to myself: "Hey, these are special moments to spend with my son Tom or with my daughter Emma", because we are alone each time and there is a difference between being alone with one of your children or being with the whole family.
So I try to have… I already had that mentality before I heard Ryan's video. And of course, I try to extend it as much as possible because time is running out, folks, and so you have to seize the day, carpe diem.
And we find this in many other philosophies. Buddhism, for example, always tells us, even t