DTH-XII-0015
“I find myself thinking about the kind of person I want to have been.”
The future tense matters here: you are not at the end yet. Imagining the person you want to have been is not nostalgia — it is a compass. You are using the end to navigate the middle. That is one of the most effective practices in living with intention.
Your Practice
Write a short eulogy for yourself — the one you would want someone to give. Not flattering, but true and specific: what you stood for, how you treated people, what you built. Then read it and ask what you need to do today to make that eulogy accurate. That gap is your next priority.
The Architects
“The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII (George Long translation; Internet Classics Archive, MIT)