Cicero talks about how you can get comfortable with the fact that you eventually won’t be around in his On Old Age... he says the key is making a positive, mean

Cicero talks about how you can get comfortable with the fact that you eventually won’t be around in his On Old Age... he says the key is making a positive, meaningful impact. If you do that, then even if you die, your positive influence lives beyond your own years. “The actor, for instance, to please his audience need not appear in every act to the very end; it is enough if he is approved in the parts in which he plays; and so it is not necessary for the wise man to stay on this mortal stage to the last fall of the curtain. For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well... But somehow, my soul was ever on the alert, looking forward to posterity, as if it realized that when it had departed from this life, then at last would it be alive.” Summary of Cicero’s On Old Age here as well: https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-age https://butwhatfor.substack.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-on-old-ag...