As If It Were the Last Thing I Do in Life…
From Meditations to my skin. A reminder imprinted for life.
“On doing what is in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes you can — if you do everything as it it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life?.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.5
I read this passage a few weeks ago as I worked through my annual re-read of Meditations. Not long after, this idea was inscribed on my skin for life.
What follows is the raw transcription of my philosophy journal that led me to tattoo this reminder on my forearm a few days later.
