“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.”
—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)
“The years go fast but the days go so slow” - Modest Mouse
“Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb.”
- Mahatma GandhiEvery year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time. Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines. - Pink Floyd
This fills me with dread, thanks!
How you view death impacts how you live life. You now have a feeling shared and contemplated by all of humankind before you, and all the humankind after you. This is the human condition.
Embrace it, come to terms with it, choose to live today and enjoy rather than worrying about that which you have no control over.
Those words are very easy to type but much harder to live.
Best of luck.
What about counting the probable number of years you have left, and from there the number of things you have time to do? How may meals, movies, vacations left? Can you waste this rest day eating ramen in front of a bad Netflix show?
Have funCan’t waste time nor use it wisely. The only thing you can do with time is pass it.
Why can’t you use it wisely?
What’s a wise use of your time? Likely many many people will argue over what a wise use of time is. I’ve used my time in what is considered foolish ways and it turned out great. I’ve been carefully wise with it only for things to blow up and leave me starting over. We can never be sure of our plans for we are of mice and men.
Time does one thing for us regardless of anything we do, no matter how much we may sometimes wish otherwise. Time passes.
Based on your experience, and what people teach you, you can have a statistical average idea of what will happen if you invest time on some things (studies, work, health etc.). Of course there are some statistically improbable outcomes sometimes, for the worse and for the best, but on average you should be in the normal range.
Yes time passes, but as an educated human in a democratic developed country, you have a lot of freedom on how you want to spend it, use it!Why assume I don’t? I use my time very well by my estimation. Plenty would think I’m totally blowing it. Doesn’t matter as they will be just as dust as I before long. Time will pass just the same after humanity is dead. We cannot use time. It is doing it’s own thing and we are pushed along for the ride no matter what happens.
That’s why I stand by my words. We can’t use time, thus we can’t waste it or use it wisely. We can only pass through it on its terms, never ours.
I hope there’s an afterlife
Me too. There is a lot of evidence for it that doesn’t have religion tied to it if you look hard enough. But it’s one of those things you’d have to have direct experience with to believe it.
Evidence such as?
You took psychedelics too, huh?
Weird association but okay.
You’d understand if you’ve done psychedelics before.
I hope not. Eternal life would be horrible.
This is a real phenomenon. The way it was explained to me, it’s because of how time takes a relatively smaller percentage of your lifespan when you’re older. When you’re ten, 5 years represents half your life, so 5 years feels like it passes very slowly; when you’re 50, 5 years represents 10% of your life, so 5 years feels like it goes by in an instant.
Ha ha this is funny … ? … why’d everything go black … ?
Looks like their “friend” is actually draining their life force to stay young themselves.
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