Seneca's sharpest warning was that while we wait to truly live, life slips by, that we postpone everything and put it off until the conditions are right. There's always a reason it isn't time yet, when things calm down, when the money's there, when the kids are grown. But the waiting itself is the life passing. This ordinary Tuesday, with its small tasks and minor frustrations, isn't the warm-up. It's the thing. You don't have to wait for a better version of your life to start living the one you have. The conditions may never be perfect. The day in front of you, plain as it is, is the life you were given. It's already begun.

Inspired by the old idea of postponing life. Written by Ugo Charles.