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January 19
Day 19/365: Seneca on retirement
Welcome to The Stoic Ledger, a daily money meditation from one of the Stoic sages.
19/365: Seneca on retirement
“How late it is to begin life just when we have to be leaving it! What a foolish forgetfulness of our mortality, to put off wholesome counsels until our fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to choose that our lives shall begin at a point which few of us ever reach.” – Seneca
Don’t delay living until retirement. Life is now, not later.
While we might live a longer life span than the Romans did some 2000 years ago, the idea is still true today. We work for a future that we may not get, we hope for a day that may not come.
But Seneca charges us to live now.
Not at 62. Not at 59.5. Now.
This does not mean spend all your money and neglect the chance at living a long life. It does not mean to forgo prudent preparation.
Rather, it’s a call to disabuse ourselves of the faulty view that the future is where and when we should start living; that the future even exists.
A good life is yours, today.
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