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Very much makes me question sitting in front of a computer in a career I didn't like while my kids hang out in another room separate from me.
I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Cool website though!
> I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Personally I have https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html printed and hanging on the wall next to me, and each week I fill another square. Having a real-time view of how long we have left to live have always filled me with energy and hope, somehow. But similarly to you, many people seem to think it's macabre/bizarre.
Besides, it's terribly self-centered. If you're taking care of an elderly parent or someone with a terminal disease, then it can be macabre to be so focused on your own mortality.
I don't see how it can be motivating. But perhaps I'm missing a key insight.
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> I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Personally I have https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html printed and hanging on the wall next to me, and each week I fill another square. Having a real-time view of how long we have left to live have always filled me with energy and hope, somehow. But similarly to you, many people seem to think it's macabre/bizarre.
When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical. A terminal disease or an accident could be right around the corner. It seems a bit delusional to have a countable number of days "left". That only the best case scenario. Besides, it's terribly self-centered. If you're taking care of an elderly parent or someon…
That's funny, it's not until I've gotten older and closer to an actual end that I start finding it motivating and not just distracting and stressful. I guess when I was younger I was more panicked with death.
Of course it's not meant to be accurate, but meant to instill "live now" instead of "live in the future", meaning I want meet more with people, stop working as much as I do and do what I enjoy, etc.
It's not really a focus, it's something I happen to accidentally glance at in something like a weekly basis. It's not hanging on the side of my display, so I'm not really "focused on my own mortality".
Very much makes me question sitting in front of a computer in a career I didn't like while my kids hang out in another room separate from me.
Here is one of the many parenting ideas that is fun https://brajeshwar.com/2022/the-quirky-productivity-tip-for-...
While I will not see my child reach my current age in this life I am excited for the world they will inhabit.
I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like diminishing ground water supply and ocean warming. Living in the US, I'm also concerned about their ability to afford healthcare if something catastrophic happens and the lack of meaningful social safe…
Rising healthcare is mitigated by insurance and personal responsibility. Climate change, drinking water, ocean warming, and other global disasters cannot be mitigated alone or individually and so we limit our concerns over what we can have a direct impact upon. My kids will work, provide for themselves, care for others, and have good attitudes. Death is inevitable. Hope is essential.
Hard to believe we crossed the 8 billion mark. Feels like yesterday we hit 6!
People must be reproducing somewhere else, not in my 3rd world country.