- Reminds us that we are mortal: we will die.
- Reminds us what reality is: we live now; we die now.
- Reminds us to prioritize our lives: don’t worry, be happy.
- Reminds us to think: we don’t know the answer if we don’t know the question.
- Reminds us to live: most of the time the alternative is not better.
- Reminds us to make a choice: if we do not, others will.
- Reminds us to take time: time is the eternal thing that we have least of.
- Reminds us to that nothing really matters: “Nothing we do now will matter in a million years”, and “nothing that will be the case in a million years matters now.” –T. Nagel
- Reminds us that honesty is the best policy: we cannot lie to ourselves forever.
- Is that inevitable reminder that change is the only consistent, that we have only one life to live, and that we often forget that fact.
The Armchair Philosopher 