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date = '2025-07-13T21:55:32Z'
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title = 'Today'
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Someday Today Will Be a Long Time Ago
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> “We should enjoy today while it's here...
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> Because someday today will be a long time ago!”
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> — Ziggy (Tom Wilson)
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The older I get, the truer that line hits.
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There’s something disarming about a Ziggy cartoon dropping a bit of timeless wisdom—like your uncle in sweatpants suddenly quoting Marcus Aurelius.
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And yet… here we are.
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**Someday today will be a long time ago.**
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* * *
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The Slow Fade of Moments
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We don’t usually notice moments turning into memories.
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They slip past quietly, unnoticed, until something—a song, a scent, a photo—jolts us back.
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Suddenly we’re standing in our old kitchen.
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Hearing the voice of someone we haven’t spoken to in years.
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Remembering what it felt like to be _there_, before everything changed.
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And it always makes me think:
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Did I enjoy that day while it was here?
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* * *
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Time Moves Quietly
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Seneca once said, _“The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”_[\[1\]](#footnote1)
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We often act like we’re saving up our real life for later.
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Later, when the schedule clears.
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Later, when we’ve paid off the car.
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Later, when the kids are grown.
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Later, when we feel more like ourselves again.
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But that “later” we’re waiting for?
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It becomes a **long time ago** faster than we realize.
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* * *
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Memory Is the Real Keepsake
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We obsess over capturing moments—Instagram, TikTok, DSLR cameras, time-lapse apps. But the memories that actually stick? They’re usually the ones we weren’t trying to capture at all.
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* Laughing in the kitchen after dinner
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* The sound of lawn sprinklers in summer
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* The weird jokes your dad told on road trips
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You don’t need a perfect planner or fancy journal.
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Just **pay attention**.
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* * *
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Choose to Be Here
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Ziggy was right.
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Today _will_ be a long time ago someday.
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So maybe instead of filling every hour with noise and screens and plans…
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We take five minutes to sit still.
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We call someone we miss.
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We write down one thing we don’t want to forget.
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Because the secret isn’t to slow down time.
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It’s to **notice** it while it’s happening.
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* * *
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Final Thought
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We don’t get to rewind. But we _do_ get to record—internally.
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We get to collect small, quiet joys and carry them forward like mental souvenirs.
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And if we’re lucky, we’ll be able to say someday:
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> “I really _did_ enjoy that day while it was here.”
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### Footnotes
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\[1\] Seneca, _Letters from a Stoic_, Letter 1. A freely available English translation can be found at [StoicLetters.com](https://www.stoicletters.com/letter-1).
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