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Four thousand weeks
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Re: Four thousand weeks
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
Writing it online where others can see it can make it easier to motivate yourself. At least for some people.
What is the goal? Reminds me of intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. If the goal is personal development, that should be intrinsic and not need outsider validation. The type of shit I write in a journal is not the type of stuff I want people to read. It is internally processing and organizing thoughts and private matters. It is shower thoughts all the way through processing relationships and emotions. My family, for in…
There are three levels of visibility in livejoirnal: public, private, and friends-only. Many of my online journal entries are set to private, those are, as you said, for internal processing and private matters. I have the least interest to read those thoughts today. I’m more likely to reread friends-only posts which generated discussion with people who I’ve never met in real life, but who nevertheless became my good online friends. But in any case, if I were to open my journal today it would be to write new entries, not to read old ones.
Re: Four thousand weeks
#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did this for a few years and I’ve never read my diary since. I’m not sure I ever will, let alone anyone else. Thinking some more about it, it’s pretty clear I mostly did it for comments (livejournal.com).
If you kept your diary secret and wrote it for yourself, it would probably be more useful.
It’s funny, now that you mentioned it I remembered I did keep a journal like that - in high school, long time ago. It was a very private, well hidden, handwritten journal where I mostly wrote down my dreams, and tried to analyze them. I also described my interactions with friends, girls, parents, my insecurities, plans, etc. Several hundred pages over a couple of years. Even though this journal is valuable to me, perhaps as an archive, I’ve never felt even a slightest desire to open it.
Re: Four thousand weeks
#204I’m impressed by the beauty of this site and sophistication of the UI. However I _hate_ this type of messaging that does nothing for you except make your mental health worse. I don’t want to think about how many weeks of life I have left! Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully (which I assume is the intent of this site). You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. Tha…
If you let the bad emotions and feelings do their business, instead of constantly trying to escape from them, you wouldn't be feeling this way. You, and many others in this modern world, remind of Dostoyevskian characters: neurotic, overly-emotional, busy buzzing around, the cause of all their own problems. No one can sit still in silence, alone with themselves -- they're always running away. There's always some emot…
> Perhaps you people need to try ayahuasca?
I seriously wish people on HN and more broadly would stop suggesting drugs and tripping out so often as a solution to any depression or existential dread.
I get it's one of several suggestions you made, but it's the most dangerous suggestion of all of them. People end up seriously harmed by this stuff, it's not to be taken lightly.
Re: Four thousand weeks
#205Man, yeah, I feel that; I just don’t have enough time to do everything I want to do. - me, laying on my couch and mindlessly browsing HN There are things I want to do that I legitimately don’t have time for, even though I have time to browse HN. Or at least, I won’t make time for them, because they’re quite time consuming. I want to learn Japanese, make my own top-down RPG, get a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu. Build some c…
I’m also in this dilemma.
I feel that as time passes, slowly more and more things fall into my plate of ‘want to dos’.
How does one manage time with so many hobbies!
My attempt is to move the goal post back down, so as to not be overwhelmed.
Like learning Japanese for an example. Rather than me saying, I want to learn Japanese, I’ll set a goal for myself to, pick up the basics if hiragana and katakana.
I think this approach will help reinforce motivation for me to be short-term goal minded.
The reading did open my eyes to the thought that not everything on our list will be completed. You might be young, but at my I age have some things to eliminate from this list; or more specifically, move them down further in terms of priority. My reasoning is a personal one, at my age, things tend not to stick as well as when I was younger.
We’ll see.
Re: Four thousand weeks
#206I’m impressed by the beauty of this site and sophistication of the UI. However I _hate_ this type of messaging that does nothing for you except make your mental health worse. I don’t want to think about how many weeks of life I have left! Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully (which I assume is the intent of this site). You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. Tha…
> Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully I’ve found, as I watch friends and family age, that learning to confront and work with this dread is essential to living life fully. Especially as decline and decay start to dominate aspects of your life more and more. The people that I know that are uncomfortable talking about these topics progressively live in a world of fe…
There is no decay and decline. Thinking that decay and decline is coming is the decay happening right now. This mentality needs to change ASAP.
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#207This depressive garbage has unfortunately proliferated itself way too much in tech spaces like HN.
Nonsense like this pretends to be wisdom but it's the very opposite of it and it has only one message: become more anxious because time is limited. No one will be helped by this, despite the gorgeous UI it's a filthy life degrading viewpoint that needs to be dismantled.
Avoid those that make you fearful and sad that degrade you back into disease and death. -Rumi
I may write a blogpost about this soon.
Re: Four thousand weeks
#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
As soon as it asked my birth date I knew it would estimate my death date and I closed the tab.
So you're avoiding thinking about how much time you have left?
Why not? That sort of thing isn't helpful or thought provoking for many of us. On the other hand many will find it thought provoking in extremely negative ways.
Most people do not like to think about their impending doom on this hellish planet.
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#209I’m impressed by the beauty of this site and sophistication of the UI. However I _hate_ this type of messaging that does nothing for you except make your mental health worse. I don’t want to think about how many weeks of life I have left! Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully (which I assume is the intent of this site). You wanna zone out on YouTube? Go for it. Tha…
> Inducing existential dread is NOT what any of us need to start living our lives more fully I’ve found, as I watch friends and family age, that learning to confront and work with this dread is essential to living life fully. Especially as decline and decay start to dominate aspects of your life more and more. The people that I know that are uncomfortable talking about these topics progressively live in a world of fe…
So how do you accept it? I know a handful of 75+ year old family members who I am close to and they don’t think about it at all. The ones who act like they are still young and don’t dwell on death seem the happiest. It runs counter to the argument that death is something you need to meditate on and acknowledge every day.
Maybe there is something to just living in denial until your quality of life has degraded and your friends are gone and death seems a welcome release.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing that most makes this poster's life worth living is caring for an animal which was engineered to be pleasant to care for. And a lot of people use these animals to replace human relationships (I've seen it quite a few times, so blatantly) as they are simpler and more stable. And the indictment is about society (in which human relationships are really hard to have for so so many reasons), not this poster, who…
I don’t see how they replace human relationships though. I have 2 dogs. 2 kids too! But yeah dogs are nice to have around. Sometimes annoying (barking, toilet incidents, training issues and so on)
Those dogs aren't your reason your living though. Didn't say "all people who have dogs.."