Condolences on the loss of your father earlier this year
Show HN: Day by Day – every day of my life
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#72Having a mortality crisis is common after your dad dies, as seems to be happening with the author of this site. This is definitely not the way to deal with it, IMO.
You may be right! I would argue that these charts, which typically depict weeks, have been of interest to me from around 2008 when I saw a Calvin & Hobbes version on Tumblr. That being said, it is probably no coincidence that I made this soon after my Dad passed away. Though I think it is likely also the impending birth of my first child contributing also.
“Found out Rebecca was pregnant” really caught me off guard because I thought she delivered twins two weeks after the wedding!
I suppose Bella and Trix are cats.
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#73Reminds me of this quote from Steve Jobs' famous commencement speech: Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
So let’s use drugs today and gamble everything I have at the casino because I know I am going to die one day and there is nothing to lose ? Sounds rhetorical but not practical
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#74I look at things like this post and then look at my manager breathing down my neck for an artificial deadline. I have made the wrong choice more than once in life.
I wonder - is my humanity lost? Am I going to end up being that old guy with soulless droopy eyes? With no friends? With no real connections?
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#75My dad passed away before 45 days and I can understand how it feels to loose an important person in your life. I am also trying to rethink what to do with life to make maximum impact.
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#76> Life 38.10% complete well that was a downer on the night, i was already having a little struggle with feeling like time is running out.
Humans don't really experience time the way it is presented here - as an equally distributed sequence of quantities. I wouldn't take it too seriously. Why let clocks dictate to you how to feel about finitude?
not so much about the experience, the feeling there is only so much time left, to learn and get good at new things and hobbies, switch careers, have kids, travel, be fit
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
You may be right! I would argue that these charts, which typically depict weeks, have been of interest to me from around 2008 when I saw a Calvin & Hobbes version on Tumblr. That being said, it is probably no coincidence that I made this soon after my Dad passed away. Though I think it is likely also the impending birth of my first child contributing also.
“Found out Rebecca was pregnant” really caught me off guard because I thought she delivered twins two weeks after the wedding! I suppose Bella and Trix are cats.
Ha - yeah they are indeed.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
20 years old is too late to start any personal development? Is that a reference to the book or a genuine opinion?
Well it is obvious that the father does this when his son is a 20 yo. And it is obvious that this is a clever hint. My point is why not to do this when his son is 10 yo?
I didn't gather that from the comment, and tend to agree with the other reply. 20 is probably the earliest that someone would grasp an idea like that, and maybe >40 would be a good time to have realized it yourself.
At age 10 you're still truly a child, you don't know shit about shit. Age 20, you still probably don't know shit about shit, but you might
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#79Depressing and inspiring. My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.
I have a similar page that generates my life in weeks: https://diary.geekodour.org/ It's a hugo site with the dates linking to hugo posts. I agree with the first comment, this definitely gets depressing at times but guess it is what it is :)
Could you share how do you accomplish this? I would love to make a similar one for my Hugo site. Thanks!
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#80I love visual representations of time passing like this, they really help to put it in perspective.
I use something similiar that only covers a year (kinda like GitHub's activity view) and it helps me visualise that future events, such as a half marathon that seems like ages away, is actually only 8 Sunday runs away.