My partner and I both intellectually believe in memento mori and think about death regularly, but we've realized we're using it completely differently—I use it to justify taking more risks and they use it to justify being more careful, and we're stuck when making decisions about our future together. We can't even agree on whether to move across the country for a job opportunity because we're both invoking 'life is short' to support opposite choices.
More people experience this than they realize.
You are both honoring mortality's wisdom but arriving at contradictory conclusions about how to live.
“Where Are You with Stoic memento mori — remember you will die?”
Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.