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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.

In this first episode of Dying Daily, a new occasional and much more casual series on the podcast, we sit with a question that most of us already know the answer to, but haven't done anything about: Who are we taking for granted?

You may have seen Eric Church's recent commencement address at UNC-Chapel Hill. If not, it’s worth watching. Church warns a graduating class not to turn the people they love into holiday strings—the ones who understand when you're too busy, whom you keep meaning to call, whom you'll see at Christmas. Interestingly, Seneca made the same argument two thousand years ago: life feels short because we give our time to everything that demands it, while the people who matter most get what's left over.

This episode is intended to be a conversation and an invitation to choose differently—today, before the day is over, with whoever has been sitting at the back of your mind waiting for a moment that never quite arrives. [...]

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