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...and then you die at 35. Live while you're alive. You don't know when the bus is going to come around that corner a little too fast.
by eropple 7y ago
...and then you die at 35.
Live while you're alive. You don't know when the bus is going to come around that corner a little too fast.
- nugget 7y agoHumanity has been having this debate for thousands of years, e.g. the fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper. It's a virtue to work hard and plan for the future. Delayed gratification is a foundational building block of civilization. There's a balance that each person must strike but I'm hesitate to criticize unless someone has parked at one extreme end of the spectrum or the other. The secret may be to more carefully measure and unnderstand experiential ROI from money spent which our traditionally materialistic focused consumer culture does not make very transparent.
- Retric 7y agoThat’s more convincing if you ignore interest. I do take long breaks between jobs, but I also avoid debt and save a huge percentage of my income.