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My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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for some reason I assumed that he would write about how this trauma would give him a new perspective on what was really important in life, but at the end it sounded like the experience didn’t really change his perspective on desiring to work all the time on his startup and that he was only stepping down because he couldn’t perform 100% and not because this experience changed anything about how he prioritized work/car…

Read again: he writes that he decided to prioritize his family over work before all of that happened.

He was clearly lying to himself.

If your job is consuming all of your mental space, which is clearly the mindset he describes in the article, there is none left for your family.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Stoics would encourage all of us to internalize our own mortality, not for morbidity’s sake, but because it helps live in the moment. The wake up call stories like this should be simulated by everyone. Imagine if this were you? Live with a fraction of that pain in your heart and try to internalize it. How does it impact our choices? Things like fingers and walking become amazing. I am always happy people share their…

People may be interested in Stephen's Colbert on the topic (video):

> That might be why you don't see me as someone angry and working out my demons onstage. It's that I love the thing that I most wish had not happened.

* https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1162183695270387712

Cooper was reading from a GQ interview:

* https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-colbert-gq-cover-story

Colbert was quoting Tolkien.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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> and I would be fully present for all the moments that mattered.

This quote stood out, because as a promise to your family, it really sucks. We never know what the moments that matter to other people are going to be. Big events are nice. But when you think back on your life, how many important moments were from small events? Just having a nice talk, doing a chore with your dad, telling your mom about your day? How many idle comments from friends ended up having a large impact on you?

When dealing with family, you need to be there enough that moments happen, because the scope of their impact on the lives of those around you are not predictable.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Stoics would encourage all of us to internalize our own mortality, not for morbidity’s sake, but because it helps live in the moment. The wake up call stories like this should be simulated by everyone. Imagine if this were you? Live with a fraction of that pain in your heart and try to internalize it. How does it impact our choices? Things like fingers and walking become amazing. I am always happy people share their…

> I am always happy people share their stories, it helps us all remember our mortality and make good choices every day. Not for me. When confronted to death or intense pain, everything else becomes insignificant and futile. And when things go back to normal, I tend to forget. I suppose that to be fully functional human beings, we need to ignore the harsh reality of life! Is it really possible to "internalize mortalit…

Do you stop yourself short?

Honestly answer. Do you face death all the way? Does the immense pain dissipate, and similar thoughts had with no pain attached?

There is gold in the ashes. It is up for the individual to identify.

Death is painful and dreadful. Anxiety ridden. Everyone feels it when contemplating death. Like the Mideveal ages everyone should walk around with a golden jeweled skull.

We plan for life, never for death. Find in the saddest moments, the hardest moments, the beauty the light gives you.

For in death, there are no answers that pertain to life just as life has no answers that pertain to death.

You may have control over living this life, but only if you fully see the beauty that death allows in life.

Don’t let the anxiety stop you.

Darkness, surrounding and surmounting, where no self exists, life boundlessly feeding into the ether and the ether boundlessly feeding into life.

A process of forget, death, decay, growth and born. Where the process is outside all of that.

The process that persists yet you go away.

Think about that darkness there, that scary insurmountable darkness of the persisting process. The persisting process that if it had awareness and wanted to undergo death and growth it could not, yet you are bounded by this process. To always grow and die, either eternally forever or one time in the whole of forever. Both time being a perfect circle and a straight line, you being the one point for all of that eternity.

To be reprised or forgotten about forever.

Darkness shattering.

The paralyzing will, if fostered, cared for, can exhume paralyization and can find a dark addicting taste for the affinity of the unknowable.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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> and I would be fully present for all the moments that mattered. This quote stood out, because as a promise to your family, it really sucks. We never know what the moments that matter to other people are going to be. Big events are nice. But when you think back on your life, how many important moments were from small events? Just having a nice talk, doing a chore with your dad, telling your mom about your day? How m…

Agreed. I hardly ever see my daughter in the morning but make sure that 99% of the time I'm home in time to put her to bed and read a story (she's 8), often it's at bedtime that any worries come out, and I'm so glad I'm able to be there to listen.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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post #12
post #9

Terrifying. Could it be that stress caused the Streptococcus pyogenes infection? It would be the most sensible explanation. I imagine being a CEO of a startup is a very stressful role, causing suppression of the immune system and thereby S pyogenes had a chance to proliferate. I have no idea, just speculation.

It was absolutely caused by unconscious emotions (like stress). The following part just made me laugh out loud: > This mainly involves infection by the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria and more commonly affects young, healthy adults. I didn't do anything to get it, it just happened - like being struck by lightning. The jarring contrast between medicine's ability to perform surgical miracles, like those described in th…

correct!

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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I am disturbed that he was almost sent away from the hospital if it weren’t for the persistence of his business partner that it was something that needed further investigation.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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A friend of mine had her young brother suddenly developing a narrow line on the skin, growing quickly; 24 hours later both his arms and legs were amputated to keep him alive.

I am wondering if having allowed emergency wide-spectrum antibiotics freely for such cases would help? Time seems to be extremely critical in such cases.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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post #12
post #9

Terrifying. Could it be that stress caused the Streptococcus pyogenes infection? It would be the most sensible explanation. I imagine being a CEO of a startup is a very stressful role, causing suppression of the immune system and thereby S pyogenes had a chance to proliferate. I have no idea, just speculation.

It was absolutely caused by unconscious emotions (like stress). The following part just made me laugh out loud: > This mainly involves infection by the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria and more commonly affects young, healthy adults. I didn't do anything to get it, it just happened - like being struck by lightning. The jarring contrast between medicine's ability to perform surgical miracles, like those described in th…

It was absolutely caused by a witch casting a curse. She should be sought out and burned at the stake and put on trial.
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