Dancing Into the Arms of Death

“We are always living in expectation of better things, while, at the same time, we often repent and long for things that belong to the past. We accept the present as something that is only temporary, and regard it only as a means to accomplish our aim. So that most people will find if they look back when their life is at an end, that they have lived their lifelong ad interim, and they will be surprised to find that something they allowed to pass by unnoticed and unenjoyed was just their life — that is to say, it was the very thing in the expectation of which they lived. And so it may be said of man in general that, befooled by hope, he dances into the arms of death.” -Arthur Schopenhauer


Read it twice, have a brief existential crisis that this may just be you, put down your phone or computer, and then go enjoy your Sunday. Then try to do the same every day after that.

So someday you can dance into death’s arms gratefully.