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Paul Graham talks about this in one of his essays, Life is Short. This part really drove it home for me. “Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous qua
by tmountain 4y ago
Paul Graham talks about this in one of his essays, Life is Short. This part really drove it home for me.
“Having kids showed me how to convert a continuous quantity, time, into discrete quantities. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times. And while it's impossible to say what is a lot or a little of a continuous quantity like time, 8 is not a lot of something. If you had a handful of 8 peanuts, or a shelf of 8 books to choose from, the quantity would definitely seem limited, no matter what your lifespan was.”
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- watwut 4y agoTo be entirely honest, when I read quotes like this, it always makes me think that they must be made by people who don't spend much time with their own kids overall. Weekend with your 2 years old is kind of the same as workday with your two years old, unless of course you just dont spend time with your 2 years old except on weekends.