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If you are 25 this is how many weeks you have left to live: http://i.imgur.com/MA3YeuX.jpg
If you like that you may find this interesting: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3568125/clock.html
If you are 25 this is how many weeks you have left to live: http://i.imgur.com/MA3YeuX.jpg
This is really powerful. As morbid as it is, I'd like to have a big poster of this that I can mark off.
Effective site, but I hope the people who found it depressing reconsider their response. The site didn't tell you anything you didn't already know, it only clarified it. Instead of denying information to keep yourself happy, why not use the information? My 69-year-old mother remarked earlier this year that if she didn't get around to some of her life goals soon she wouldn't be able to. Did she say that out of depress…
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Makes me sad because I don't have much control over living in the same city as them. I have a theory that much of the high rates of depression and unhappiness in the US can be attributed to the large size of the country combined with our mobility within it. Childhood friends always move far away, families separate, your schoolmates drift away. You need 2-5 hour flights to see anyone. Take for example a Brit or a Germ…
"Take for example a Brit or a German. The people you grow up with and your families might move to another city, but they are always just a reasonable train ride or drive away." Not that reasonable. I'm a Brit, living in Scotland. Many, many of my friends live either 5-and-a-bit hours' train ride away (London) or 7-8 hours by train or car away (Bristol).
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"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." - Steve Jobs I built this to remind myself - http://liveconsciously.me/
There's every reason not to follow your heart, if your heart doesn't know how to make money. You've gotta have something for retirement...
Perhaps it is an expensive minimaxing strategy.
Effective site, but I hope the people who found it depressing reconsider their response. The site didn't tell you anything you didn't already know, it only clarified it. Instead of denying information to keep yourself happy, why not use the information? My 69-year-old mother remarked earlier this year that if she didn't get around to some of her life goals soon she wouldn't be able to. Did she say that out of depress…
I don't want to nitpick but 100 kilometers a day for a 70 year old, sounds pretty impossible...thats about 7 hours of non stop riding every day at a modest speed, even a fit college student won't be able to bike for 7 hours straight. Edit: I do agree that a fit student can do a 7 hour bike tour, but i still staand by my opinion that for 70 year old it seems to be impossible.
I'm going to Japan in 2 months, for 2 weeks, to see my wife's parents in Japan. (I live in Los Angeles.) They are getting up in years and their health is declining so this will probably be the last time we see her dad, and maybe her mom too. The trip will cost $6,000 minimum for the 3 of us to go. My father lives in Texas, and we went this spring. That cost $2,000. Next summer, we may go to France for a couple of wee…
Wow, did not know that domestic US flights cost that much. I hope you earn well above 100k!
Please understand I don't mean to discredit your site in any way and what I'm about to say below is no reflection in your commitment. But this is a good opportunity for me to make an important point regards a discussion that took place here a few days ago. You see - This website serves no purpose in the East or Eastern ethnic minorities. It's not part of our culture to lose contact with our parents. I saw my parents…
I visit my family every single weekend. No exception. And that includes my uncles, cousins and grandparents when they were alive.
I guess that for our cultures, family is a very important part of our lives, a safety net, etc... The average American is very individualistic in comparison (it's not meant to be negative - the very same traits mean Americans are more self-reliant and adventurous)
Please understand I don't mean to discredit your site in any way and what I'm about to say below is no reflection in your commitment. But this is a good opportunity for me to make an important point regards a discussion that took place here a few days ago. You see - This website serves no purpose in the East or Eastern ethnic minorities. It's not part of our culture to lose contact with our parents. I saw my parents…
Many South American / Mediterranean / Latin cultures also value family a lot (the U.S. has the stereotype of Italians: people of Spanish and Greek descent too). I visit my family every single weekend. No exception. And that includes my uncles, cousins and grandparents when they were alive. I guess that for our cultures, family is a very important part of our lives, a safety net, etc... The average American is very in…