"Just as there will be a final occasion on which I pick up my son—a thought that appalls me, but one that’s hard to deny, since I surely won’t be doing it when he’s thirty—there will be a last time that you visit your childhood home, or swim in the ocean, or make love, or have a deep conversation with a certain close friend. **Yet usually there’ll be no way to know, in the moment itself, that you’re doing it for the last time**" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[ever-present-now]], [[amor-fati]], [[character]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]