Hemingway famously posited that only bullfighters live their life all the way up. Yet even those of us who do not assiduously court danger might live more richly with a little more forethought, Live fast, die young holds no appeal for me, but neither does a life of vacuity. In the brief moment we are given before we are extinguished and forgotten in the eternal void, can we not strive to make optimum use of every second we are vouchsafed? If so, would we not shun the better part of the idle distractions in our lives that tempt but do not satisfy? And yet the frailty of human nature is such that the better part of our time is spent on stupidities and banalities.
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