Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.Cold or warm.Tired or well-rested.Despised or honored.Dying … or busy with other assignments.Because dying, too, is one of our assignments in life. There as well: “to do what needs doing.”Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms.Keep this constantly in mind: that all sorts of people have died — all professions, all nationalities. Follow the thought all the way down to Philistion, Phoebus, and Origanion. Now extend it to other species.We have to go there too, where all of them have already gone:… the eloquent and the wise — Heraclitus, Pythagoras, Socrates …… the heroes of old, the soldiers and kings who followed them …… the smart, the generous, the hardworking, the cunning, the selfish …… and even [those] who laughed at the whole brief, fragile business.All underground for a long time now.And what harm does it do them? Or the others either — the ones whose names we don’t even know?The only thing that isn’t worthless: to live this life out truthfully and rightly. And be patient with those who don’t.//https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/11/18/marcus-aurelius-meditations-mortality/