I don't know. This was really f depressing.
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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/
You can see the home where I grew up in your site’s photo. I freaked out for a second, thinking it might be some kind of message from above. Or some crazy breach of my privacy. I guess it’s just a freaky coincidence! Wow.
Speaking of freaky coincidence: I went to this site, and it asked me my date of birth, before telling me how long I had left to pursue my dreams, on what happened to be my first experience on my 40th birthday.
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#18317.5 times?!
Comes with living abroad and away from the family, sure, but grim. I should visit them more often than once a year.
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#184I didn't even dare to put my details in. I'm a constant worrier and have always had existential issues, so this website doesn't do me any good. We are all different.
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#185Please 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…
C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6561709
3 hours really isn't very far. I had Indian colleagues who would see their parents once or twice a year because they lived in different continents. In China they have passed a law that people need to look after their parents, presumably because people weren't doing so. I don't think you're seeing the picture with your one-size-fits-all East versus West cultural comparison.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
100k a day is.. routine, not even challenging for anyone who cycles regularly. They say cycling is a sport where you can peak around 50. The guys I cycle with are all well over 50 and some of them can seriously outpace me (I'm 31) I am sometimes overtaken at sportives by very old brown skinned skinny men on bikes. I'd say one of those guys would be able to do 200k a day np. (last sportive I did was 190k with 4 catego…
"They say cycling is a sport where you can peak around 50" - I doubt there is any sport with a significant physical component (i.e. not golf) where you can peak at 50.
http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/fitness-coach/Am-I-too-...
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#187Effective 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…
"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/
Good job on the site.
I'm not sure if this information is motivational or debilitating. :)
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#188Effective 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…
Another thing you can do right now is to start asking your parents about their life. It's one of those things you never take the time to do, and then one day it's too late. If you live close to your parents, do it in person the next time you see them (and bring a voice recorder, your grand-kids will thank you some day). If you live far away, I built a service that makes it easy to do over email ( http://www.storywort…
My great grandma died at the age of 94. My grandma said last year in her late 70s "I wish my mom was alive, there are so many things I want to ask her" then started to name the things she wanted to ask her which included "Why didn't she smile in her wedding photo," a photo which has been on the mantle for at least the last 30 years.
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#189Please 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…
Family is important to me, even extended family (cousins, uncles, aunts) but I don't have the luxury of being able to visit nearly as much as I would like. I live too far away from the lot of them and some more are spaced out all over the country anyways. Factors out of my control prevent me from living anywhere else in the world.
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#190This kinda depressed me a lot more than I was expecting :|