# Long Game Croaking

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-10-30

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There’s an app I use called [WeCroak](https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wecroak%20app&c=apps).

Five times per day, it sends you a notification that says “**Remember, you are going to die.”**

On the surface, it seems morbid.

But it’s actually one of the most life-affirming things I do.

There’s a strand of Buddhist who believe that, if you contemplate death 5 times per day, you’ll be more content.

And contentment, according to the Tao Te Ching, Kohelet, Pirkei Avot (google/chatgpt them), is the key.

How does contemplating death do that?

Because it is a forcing function on stripping away the frivolities and the temporal-the fancy cars, vacations, and dinners-to focus on the most important things-relationships, people, and impact.

Nothing physical lasts.

Legacy, if I have one, is made up of the ephemeral.

Eventually, that truth dawns on all of us.

The question is: when?

And then what do we do about it?

How do we live differently…every day?

How do we “put in the reps” and play the longest possible game?

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*Originally published on [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2/long-game-croaking)*