It's a call and a challenge to head outdoors and soak in the beauty of the natural world on every single day of our existence. To encourage us to fully embrace this one short, fleeting life that we have, the Stoic philosophers exhort us to contemplate our future deaths with the term “ memento mori,” which literally means, "remember that you must die." This contemplation of our future death should help clarify what’s most important right here and right now.Īt its core, Outside 365 is a call to embrace the beauty of life. Many people never truly embrace the beauty, vitality, and opportunities inherent in life. The pain is gone, and only oblivion remains.īut until the sweet release of oblivion, we have the opportunity to live. Not everyone takes advantage of this opportunity, though, and many people waste their lives by simply existing. We slip from this existence of pain and struggle into a sweet slumber from whence we'll never wake. But if you don't remember anything at all? Sweet oblivion! That's the kind of sleep that I want every night! Isn't the most restful night of sleep the one from which you awake and have no recollection of? If you had stressful dreams all night and you wake up anxious and exhausted from fighting imaginary battles the previous eight hours, that's a shitty night of sleep. We're all going to die-our consciousness will be snuffed out, and we'll slip from life into oblivion.
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