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Like Sands Through the Hourglass · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
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• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: The intro for the long-running NBC soap opera, The Days of Our Lives, proclaims, like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know this line is more than a great introduction to a soap opera, it's also the absolute truth.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: The truth is that the sand in your hourglass is gonna run out one day.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna run out in mine as well.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: We all have a limited amount of time on this earth, so what will be left after you're gone?
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Certainly there will be social media posts, mementos, people's memories, and what you created, but those things can fade over time.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: Your words, by contrast, can be immortal.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: We all have the same amount of time in this life.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Life is never going to be ideal and things are not gonna slow down.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: There's always gonna be something happening.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: And the truth is that you have to write in the midst of an imperfect life, in the mess and the muck of what's happening all around you.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: In the musical Hamilton, which came out a few years ago and happens to be one of my favorite musicals ever, Eliza Hamilton asks her husband, Alexander, why do you write like you're running out of time?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's a good question, not just for Alexander, but for you and I as well.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Because the truth is that we're all running out of time.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: The sand is running out on all of our lives, every single moment.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have an infinite number of days.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: You only have a specific amount of time on this earth.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now, nobody knows what time that is, but none of us is going to be immortal except what we put into our words, which can live long, long after us.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: So how will you spend the days you have, and what kind of words will you put down that people can remember long after you're gone?
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's question Does knowing your life will come to an end someday motivate you to make the most of every day?
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: Why or why not?
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you tomorrow.