4 ms·
A nice visual version of this memento mori is Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks": https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/l
by pixelmonkey 4y ago
A nice visual version of this memento mori is Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks":
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
After reading this, I used this nice online PDF generator to print out my personalized life calendar, and kept it in my home office with a pen nearby, checking off the passing weeks occasionally (every month or so).
https://www.ekn.io/calendar/ https://www.ekn.io/calendar/
Spending some time to check off the first ~2k weeks -- checking a little box for each week of my life thus far -- was quite an emotional thing, actually.
- DavidPiper 4y agoTim Urban also wrote a slightly haunting follow-up: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html I read it every January or so.
- saboot 4y agoMan this was hard to read. My parents moved across the country a few years ago, went from seeing them every two weeks to twice a year. I'll be lucky to see them more than a couple dozen times total for the rest of our lives.
- cezart 4y agoPaul Graham also has an essay which explores the same core idea, but imho he manages to explore more angles of the passage of time, and how we perceive it through the scarcity of different experiences we value. If you liked this one, check it out: http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html
- benkaiser 4y agoI made a new tab page that follows the same idea: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/life-clock-new-tab-page/hpbfjnhippjockepghakfijgfjildojg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/life-clock-new-tab...