Run With Mu

“Men, today we die a little,” the great runner Emil Zatopek was once quoted as saying, presumably at the starting line of a race. But he could just as truthfully have said it before he ate a bowl of cereal, or as he walked to a bus stop, or as he picked his nose. After all, everyone is dying a little every second. But we should feel Zatopek’s urgency, rather than our regret.