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"Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die." - Morty Nothing you do, or statistically anyone does, matters after you move on whe
by mhurron 10y ago
"Nobody exists on purpose. Nobody belongs anywhere. Everybody's gonna die." - Morty
Nothing you do, or statistically anyone does, matters after you move on whether it's moving on from that job or moving on from this mortal coil. Regret needs to be framed in the sense of did you regret what you did at that moment for that moment.
Thinking about your accomplishments in the frame of years after your dead is going to just depress you to the point you're going to consider making that end come a whole lot sooner.
Give your grandchildren something to care about? Why would they? By the time they come around, everything you've done is old news. Then your great-grandchildren, well they won't know anything about you. Your great-great-grandchildren won't even know you existed, just like everybody else on the planet. Don't do things to try to create a legacy that no one cares about.
I regret plenty, but I also don't care that I'm a meaningless nothing in the universe.
- WillEngler 10y agoI find "What will your grandchildren think?" to be a decent heuristic. For example, I admire my grandparents a great deal for their community service. My grandmother is in poor health, but she still gets around for charity board meetings. In her prime she was a pillar of civil society in my home town. Thinking of what future generations will appreciate pushes us to think outside of ourselves. I know less about my great-grandparents, but I admire them for emigrating to America and struggling to make a better life for their kids. Granted, on the cosmic timeline their actions don't amount to too much (because nobody's do). But I definitely feel the impact of my great and great-great grandparent's decisions.
- dancek 10y ago> Give your grandchildren something to care about? Why would they? By the time they come around, everything you've done is old news. Spend time with your kids, keep your marriage together. Love your family. They'll (eventually) see that you did, and they'll care very much about that.