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To play a devils advocate for a second >I have had several friends who died young without living their lives while they could. What does it matter though? To
by tsol 4y ago
To play a devils advocate for a second
>I have had several friends who died young without living their lives while they could.
What does it matter though? To the secular, when you're gone you're gone. What does it matter what you did or didn't do in the end anyways. To the religious, well the fun you had while living doesn't matter because this life is temporary anyways-- the only consideration is that you could have done more good in the world before going to one much longer.
The natural philosophical extension of this is to say it doesn't really matter whether or not you 'lived life'. Wanting the perception of 'a live well lived' is just another desire that creates unhappiness in you when it's not fulfilled. What if it's enough to spend your whole life working? You'd have still spent a whole life as a unique being with unique experiences and perspectives.
I mean what does the past matter at all really? All we have is what we experience now. Ok I see now I might be getting a little too esoterical for 8am lol
- sgt101 4y agoYou are right about the past not mattering, but I think that people sometimes discount their happiness now too much in favour of expected future happiness and rewards. The fellas I knew invested their time in unhappy activities hoping for a reward in the future. They didn't get any of that reward; what they did was only rational if they could access some of the expected reward in their lives. They would have been better off if they had missed some paper deadlines and gone on a few more hiking trips or gone to a few more wild parties. Sure - if working on something is what floats your boat... go for it! Sure - invest something in the future (at least!) because it's likely you are going to live to see 75 winters, but only likely.