>> "we waste it with greed, greed and intolerance"
Is it really greed though? Or just the struggle to make ends meat?
I feel such concerns about one's legacy are quite the first world problem.
But it's still a great post.
We will all be dead soon
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#22I’ve been thinking something similar to this as I lost one of the closest people in my life a few weeks ago.
People have been living and dying on this rock for thousands of generations and no-one alive today remembers any of them. Even the most immensely successful people to have lived just a short while ago - all of the John Rockefellers and the Andrew Carnegies of the world - are remembered only insofar as their names adorn buildings today. I don’t think it would matter at all if my name was on a library after I’m gone. I’m not sure how it could.
I’m trying to prioritise more (and better) time with my kids as it really is going by in a blink and while I’ve always understood this logically it’s really hit me like a freight train lately how none of it’s guaranteed.
To be cheesy and quote Tony Stark: “No amount of money ever bought a second of time”.
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#23I was unemployed for a good stretch last summer/fall and would go hiking, backpacking or camping in the Sierra Nevadas almost every week.
After the third trip in a month, walking among granite cliffs and alpine lakes I realized that I wasn't feeling much awe. To have those profound breathtaking moments in nature you need the contrast of months in civilization sitting on a computer. Same thing with special moments with loved ones, or anything that seems profound and makes you think "I should be doing this all the time".
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#24I'm not trying to proselytize here, just merely pointing out that the sentiment is thousands of years old: Akabyah ben Mahalalel said: mark well three things and you will not come into the power of sin: know from where you come, and where you are going, and before whom you are destined to give an account and reckoning. From where do you come? From a putrid drop. Where are you going? To a place of dust, of worm and of…
Nothing relative to God in OP's post. Contrarily,it is materialistic in nature.
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#25This is why stupidity like Scrum should be abolished in every software shop worldwide. It just wastes time. It is just busy work and busy meetings for nothing and it is one of the most time consuming aspects of a dev job.
Someone is going to come along and tell you this has nothing to do with the article but I see you and I’m giving you a quiet nod while sipping ma drink.
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#26I was unemployed for a good stretch last summer/fall and would go hiking, backpacking or camping in the Sierra Nevadas almost every week. After the third trip in a month, walking among granite cliffs and alpine lakes I realized that I wasn't feeling much awe. To have those profound breathtaking moments in nature you need the contrast of months in civilization sitting on a computer. Same thing with special moments wit…
Exactly my thoughts. Participating in the rat race is a choice. All these things described can be experience in our world today. If you choose to do so. I would recommend it.
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#27> If we could only think about this, surely our approaches, our thoughts would change, we would be different people. Oh boy, nobody tell them about Nihilism.
Exactly. Tell them about Stoicism instead!
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#28Every man dies twice. Once when you take your final breath, and then again the last time someone says your name.
Good thing my name is John Smith then.
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#29I see ChatGPT has entered the "I am 14 and have deep thoughts" stage. AKA Musk mode.
Tbh I'm not seeing anything in the delivery here to quality it for being sneered at, or compared to Musk.
Perhaps it's easier for some to mock a reminder like this, than to reflect on it. This is one of those truths that's worth remembering, and deeper than it might seem.
"All conditioned things are impermanent — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - Some 14yo I guess, idk
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#30I was unemployed for a good stretch last summer/fall and would go hiking, backpacking or camping in the Sierra Nevadas almost every week. After the third trip in a month, walking among granite cliffs and alpine lakes I realized that I wasn't feeling much awe. To have those profound breathtaking moments in nature you need the contrast of months in civilization sitting on a computer. Same thing with special moments wit…
A charitable reading of the text would be that the argument isn't to exclusively do these things. Just that one should make more time for them. If that call does not apply to you it does not apply to you. It's not a particularly deep or novel thought any way.