We can never stop the relentless march of Time; we are all too aware that our life is finite so it becomes ever important to always seek out new experiences and try to do as much as we can in the short time we have. For not to try and test our path through life is to not live a life at all.
Strindberg said.
" When I come home and sit at my writing table, then I live.... I live, and I live in manifold fashion of all human beings. I depict; I am glad with the glad, wicked with the wicked,.. more..