Commentary on Meditations: B3:10

So discard all else and secure these few things only. Remind yourself too that each of us lives only in the present moment, a mere fragment of time: the rest is life past or uncertain future. Sure, life is a small thing, and small the cranny of the earth in which we live it: small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who will quickly die, and have no knowledge even of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

In all the vastness of time, we only ever live the present moment.. We cannot change or re-live the past. The future is beyond our grasp and is not up to us. What is up to us is what we do now and what attitude we choose to have in the present moment.

Embrace this fact and remind yourself of it every day: we, all, die. Whether we die as a child or as an old man, we all share the same fate.

One of my favorite, popular songs is called "Same Graves" by The Ghost Club. If you have a few minutes today, look it up on Spotify or YouTube. The tune is catchy and the lyrics are a good reminder of our common fate of death.