So you see that with all this ancient wisdom
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 10:29 am
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 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.
, 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 spain whatsapp number data 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 though I'm not an expert on Buddhism, that we must focus on the present moment. There is the thinker Eckhart Tolle, who is a Canadian writer, who wrote a very severe book... not very severe, no, very famous, The Power of Now. And it allows, when we have this state of mind, to say: "the next 5 minutes, they are the only 5 minutes that will be given to me, let's just make the most of them."
I hope you enjoyed it, that it makes you think and that it encourages you to take 5 minutes of your precious time, which is quality time, to leave 5 stars to the Français Authentique podcast on your device and of course to join us on Facebook and Instagram . We also make short one-minute videos in which we talk a little about personal development, so I hope you like it. And I'll see you very soon for a new episode of Marchez avec Johan. Thank you for following me.
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.
, 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 spain whatsapp number data 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 though I'm not an expert on Buddhism, that we must focus on the present moment. There is the thinker Eckhart Tolle, who is a Canadian writer, who wrote a very severe book... not very severe, no, very famous, The Power of Now. And it allows, when we have this state of mind, to say: "the next 5 minutes, they are the only 5 minutes that will be given to me, let's just make the most of them."
I hope you enjoyed it, that it makes you think and that it encourages you to take 5 minutes of your precious time, which is quality time, to leave 5 stars to the Français Authentique podcast on your device and of course to join us on Facebook and Instagram . We also make short one-minute videos in which we talk a little about personal development, so I hope you like it. And I'll see you very soon for a new episode of Marchez avec Johan. Thank you for following me.