Remember What You Don’t Want to Think About: Memento Mori – Episode 462

Life is short and done too soon. You think you have all the time in the world, but you don’t. While you worry about the future and wish for the past, the river of your life flows through you unnoticed. Memento Mori is Latin for Remember You Will Die. Does that depress you? Scare you? If we can move past our fear of this inescapable fact, we can see life in front of us as precious, magnificent and something to be lived fully and mindfully. In this episode, Ted discusses how the fact of our mortality can keep us awake and present to life happening here, now, in all its glory and brevity.

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I went for a long walk this morning. It was a beautiful morning, cool with a nice breeze, the air was fresh and the view of the San Gabriel Mountains near my home was clear and just so beautiful.  

I just celebrated my 21st wedding anniversary, I’ve got a kid in college now and one ready to graduate high school. I’m 64 years old.  

I guess the change in seasons happening now and the feel of winter on the doorstep made me feel a bit pensive. I started thinking back over my life. Thinking about my young years growing up in Southern California, my 20 years living and figuring it out in Tucson Arizona, and coming back to So Cal 24 years ago, to get married, raise a family, start a hypnotherapy practice and watch me and those that I love, get older and for some, pass on.  

Then I realized that tomorrow, November 2nd is All Soul’s Day, the day when Christians pray for and remember those who have passed. I thought about my brother who passed a year ago.  

I thought back to all the people I’ve known, all the things that I’ve done and seen, all the places I’ve been and everything I’ve been through, both good and bad.  

I really felt that sense of how quickly life passes by. If you are in your 40s or older, you know that feeling. 

Four years ago when my youngest daughter graduated from the eighth grade, she said “Dad, middle school went by so fast.” 

And I wanted to tell her that it just goes by faster and faster but I didn’t tell her because she’ll experience it herself.  

The singer Neil Diamond released a song in 1970 called “Done Too Soon”. That brings us to the title of today’s podcast “Remember What You Don’t Want to Think About: Memento Mori.  

Memento Mori is Latin for “Remember that you will die.” 

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