frogplate quoted Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you …
"that life is nothing but a succession of present moments, culminating in death"
— Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman (Page 135)
This book very much aligns with the Stoic views on the present moment, the flow of time, and death, but perhaps presenting a more relaxed view of our purpose in life. But it is curious that there appears to be no reference to Stoicism in the book.