Return to dust — on accepting death

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Despise not death, but welcome it, for Nature wills it like all else. For dissolution is but one of the processes of Nature, associated with thy life’s various seasons, such as to be young, to be old, to wax to our prime and to reach it, to grow teeth and beard and gray hairs, to beget, conceive and bring forth.

— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

When I read this, I was thinking more about life years after…when even one’s mention dies. Is it really so bad to just return to dust if you lived your whole life in honor and honesty, doing what you can and harming none?

It’s a comforting thought.

No need to keep fighting to do something. No need to fear the end coming early. No need to fight. Welcome it just like you welcome a much awaited child. But be prepared.

How grateful I am to have easy access to the wisdom of ages in written words! I suggest the audio format narrated by Richard Armitage.