31–40 of 205 posts
This conflates life expectancy at birth with your current life expectancy. Those are wildly different. They were even more different in the past when life expectancy at birth was below 30, and most healthy adults lived past 70. But they're still very different.
This is so depressing, and I am left with just over 60%.I can't imagine how someone would feel with just 10% or even less..
Mine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some. I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.
So in that sense you may not do all the living you've done all over again and then some.
For example, I'd say my 30s felt half as a long as my 20s, which themselves seemed to pass much faster than than 10-20, which felt very long indeed. And childhood, 0-10, seemed like an eternity!
This is true even at a micro level. E.g. a 3 hour car ride now does not feel like a big deal to me, but it seemed almost unbearably long to me as a child.
Another way in which you won't do as much living as you've already done is that in your early years you went through profound development -- both physically and mentally. That doesn't happen again; we mature, we refine, and (sadly, hopefully not too much), we decline, but it's nothing near as profound as we get to experience early in life.
Love it, i always wanted to buy a watch that did this and not time :)
Or in Montaigne’s words: to philosophize is to learn to die http://homepages.wmich.edu/~rvr5407/3140readings/That%20to%2...
Feeling bad that you’re not using your time to the max is one of the worst ways to use your time.
Getting all the way back to the 70s took a couple minutes of patient tapping on my phone, only to get told I have NAN left. What a let down.
Seems broken? Tells me I have 60-some percent of my life remaining (I was born 1964, when I return to settings it seems stuck on 1992 - for which 60% would make sense).
