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Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Post by psychoslave »

auslegung wrote: post #27
yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

I saw a tree yesterday. It was beautiful. The sun was close to setting, the sky was completely clear. The color of the sky went from a beautiful clear blue down to a very pale almost green color at the horizon, backdropping the tree. I may remember this the rest of my life.

Also remember none of those things would have been possible without you observing it.

https://www.nsta.org/q-if-tree-falls-forest-and-theres-no-on...

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Post by dukeofdoom »

I know some youtube channels are basically "a week in my life" concepts. Seems to me trying to make a good video about your week, would motivate you to have an interesting week. Making the video would the reflective part. Seems to me it would work better than a calendar.

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Post by leetrout »

chestercodes wrote: post #24
trevormcneal wrote: post #21

Just to download a pdf... The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes: To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service. To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user. For the performance of a con…

Cheers for the feedback :) I used a free privacy policy generator, which in retrospect was a mistake as it is much broader than my intentions. If anyone is worried, no data will leave the identity provider service.

Yea, but why do you even need an email if everything is running locally?

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Post by ng-user »

chestercodes wrote: post #24
trevormcneal wrote: post #21

Just to download a pdf... The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes: To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service. To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user. For the performance of a con…

Cheers for the feedback :) I used a free privacy policy generator, which in retrospect was a mistake as it is much broader than my intentions. If anyone is worried, no data will leave the identity provider service.

Piggybacking off this comment to say, I made it 95% of the way to downloading the calendar before the "Sign in" button made me close the tab. There is no valid reason why I need to authenticate and provide you my account information to download a generic PDF, the juice ain't worth the squeeze imo.

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Post by bertr4nd »

This isn’t exactly the same as a deathbed experience, but about two years ago I had a devastating lumbar disc hernia that landed me in the ER with such pain that I couldn’t stand, or even roll over.

I remember thinking that my biggest regret was that I had prioritized my job over my health. I’d stopped exercising and was overeating because my work was in a bad place and I was trying to scrape together every moment to make progress, and I’m sure that had a deleterious effect on my spine health.

I resolved that going forward I would prioritize my health (and my family) over my job.

I succeeded at maintaining those priorities for a while, and luckily my back healed relatively well. But I’ll admit that job stress ramped back up, and as I felt physically better it was all to easy to shift back into the same old patterns.

Re: Show HN: Life calendar – use the concept of Memento mori to embrace every week

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Post by Fnoord »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

So, I have a family. When I do something memorable in a weekend which involves social action (such as going to the zoo with the family, or a birthday party), I need to recover from it. I can't do something similar next weekend, I need to relax the weekend after. Maybe its the fact I am autistic.

I don't fancy the life calendar stuff. I am very curious by nature, and curiosity I find the most important in 'doing'. I really don't need to stimulate that, just like I don't need psychedelics or weed to get open minded (been there, done it).

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Post by gurkendoktor »

danielskogly wrote: post #16

The Kurzgezagt shop also has some nice "Calendar of your life" posters[0] based on the "What Are You Doing With Your Life? The Tail End" animation they did last year, which is again based on the Wait But Why article "Your Life in Weeks"[2]. [0] https://shop-eu.kurzgesagt.org/collections/existential-dread... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeJANDKwDc [2] https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Thanks, I didn't know kurzgesagt had them on their shop as well. I've ordered mine from the waitbutwhy shop after reading the blog post, which was pretty silly for a piece of paper to be sent to Germany. Oh well.

Then I got stuck filling it out: Is week #1 (the square in the top left corner) the first calendar week of my birth year? Or is it the first week of my life? The latter makes more sense, but then it gets really tedious to translate timestamps for university graduation etc. (OP takes the birthday into account and offers month markers. Good idea.)

The life calendar is now posted next to my desk, still empty half a year later. Once/if I get to filling it out, I should mark this long period of time where I have it but don't use it. Time flies.

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Post by vincentmarle »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

Mindfulness (what you’re basically describing) does not conflict with memento mori. When you realize that this tomato could be the last tomato you’ll be eating, having the conversation with your kid be the last conversation you’ll be having etc etc you’ll fully appreciate each moment in life as if it could be your last.

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Post by matwood »

yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

> The idea that one needs to do something memorable

I agree, which is why I try to view the little things as memorable. Laying on the couch with my dog or cooking for my wife is a little thing, but amazing and memorable. Doom scrolling, not so much.

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Post by krageon »

vincentmarle wrote: post #38
yessirwhatever wrote: post #17

I read a quote today that I think is relevant: > “Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make…

Mindfulness (what you’re basically describing) does not conflict with memento mori. When you realize that this tomato could be the last tomato you’ll be eating, having the conversation with your kid be the last conversation you’ll be having etc etc you’ll fully appreciate each moment in life as if it could be your last.

> Mindfulness

Mindfulness is a product of an industry seeking to capitalise on the yoga pants (and later suits) demographic, to great success. Let's not legitimise it by using it as an example of healthy thinking, because it's not.

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