₂₉What I mean, my friends, is this: there is not much time left, and from now on married men should live as though they were not married; ₃₀those who weep, as though they were not sad; those who laugh, as though they were not happy; those who buy, as though they did not own what they bought; ₃₁those who deal in material goods, as though they were not fully occupied with them. For this world, as it is now, will not last much longer.