{ "item_title" : "The Time You Have", "item_author" : [" Kristian Fennessy "], "item_description" : "For anyone who feels the years speeding up, keeps putting life off until later, or lies awake with the fear of death. The Time You Have is a whole book on memento mori, the Stoic practice of keeping your own death in view so you stop wasting the time you have.The phrase means remember you will die, and most people flinch at it because it sounds morbid. The Stoics kept death daily before their eyes for the opposite reason: the fact of the ending is what makes the time count. The dying do not waste their afternoons. Neither, it turns out, do the people who remember they are dying.Keeping death in view is not nihilism (nothing matters because we die), not hedonism (eat, drink, for tomorrow we die), and not a life of dread. The book draws those lines first, then follows the idea into busyness, the deferred I'll live later life, growing older, the hunger to be remembered, and the death that comes too soon, which it never calls good.The practices insideThe view from the end: asking, of the worry filling your week, how much it will have mattered from the last day of your life.Time, not lifespan: the trouble was never that life is short; it is that we waste most of it, and time is the one thing no fortune buys back.Cutting worry to size: how finitude shrinks the replayed slight and the status sting while the important things stand out more.Facing the fear itself: looking at the 3 a.m. fear of not existing instead of away from it, and why the not-being ahead is the not-being before you were born.Only now, and the last times: returning to the only moment you have, and marking last times before they pass.The rehearsal: a deliberate one-minute rehearsal of death that keeps the clarity from wearing off by Tuesday.Quotations come from Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Cicero in cited public-domain translations, and the book handles death plainly, without melodrama.Pick it up if you want to live more awake to the time you have. Skip it if you want a broad history of Stoicism, a grief or bereavement book, or a gothic meditation on dying; this one is about your own finitude, and it lightens rather than darkens.This is Book 3 of Stoic Fundamentals, after In Your Control and Love What Happens. The first sorts what is in your power from what is not, the second meets what comes, and this one faces the fact behind both: the time is finite and already running. Each book stands alone, so starting here is fine.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/816/9798178161425_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "12.99", "online_price" : "12.99", "our_price" : "12.99", "club_price" : "12.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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