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And then you realize that you're using this incredible and very temporary opportunity to sit in a chair for most of your waking hours, for decades in a row. Be
by mikestew 4y ago
And then you realize that you're using this incredible and very temporary opportunity to sit in a chair for most of your waking hours, for decades in a row.
Beats the hell out of scratching out a subsistence living. That ain't gonna afford me much of any opportunity other than scratching at the ground and hoping the locusts don't eat it. Anything beyond that, and we're just arguing about the degree of technology that we're comfortable with. That doesn't sound nearly as noble, I suppose, but I always thought Thoreau was kinda full of it anyway.
So you do you, but I'm smack in the middle of midlife, and I'm having no crisis at all.
- fleddr 4y agoCould be worse is not that much of a comeback. But I'm happy that you're happy. I'm not unhappy, and I was exaggerating, but I do believe there's quite a gap between how amazing our existence is and how unamazing we tend to spent it.
- arbitrary_name 4y agoBut i have issue with your 'unamazing': the mere fact of existence is a miracle, and what you do with it is up to you. The amazingness is an entirely made up and subjective judgement. In this case, you just seem to be going around saying 'you are spending your life mediocrely' because that's your measure. From my perspective, you have no business declaring that to be a universal value. I personally think there are billions of different ways to spend this life, and billions of different ways to value it. We might try to establish some external measurement, as you appear to be doing, but what is that actually worth, besides making you feel like you have some company in mediocrity?
- fleddr 4y agoYou seem upset. Try to be more happy.