Your Time Is the Only Property You Own — Seneca's On the Shortness of Life
"The life we receive is not short, but we make it so" (Seneca, On the Shortness of Life). The essay everyone quotes and nobody reads argues the opposite of its title: life is long enough if well invested. What Seneca actually wrote about guarding your hours like property, the catalogue of disguised waste, why busyness is the modern form of the disease, the six mistakes that turn time-ownership into miserliness, and a 7-day time-audit protocol built on his own structure.