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Depressing and inspiring. My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the
by grapescheesee 3y ago
Depressing and inspiring.
My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.
- bicx 3y agoCan I at least have 8 stones?
- thih9 3y agoIf you eat healthy, exercise, have a family/pet/social life and don't stress too much, then likely yes.
- geekodour 3y agoI have a similar page that generates my life in weeks: https://diary.geekodour.org/ https://diary.geekodour.org/ It's a hugo site with the dates linking to hugo posts. I agree with the first comment, this definitely gets depressing at times but guess it is what it is :)
- mrroryflint 3y agoLooks great - I love the design.
- geekodour 3y agothanks! :)
- davidcollantes 3y agoCould you share how do you accomplish this? I would love to make a similar one for my Hugo site. Thanks!
- geekodour 3y agosure, it's a little personal but i just made the repo public, here you go: - https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/content-org/weeks.org https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/content-org/wee... - https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/layouts/partials/week_entry.html https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/layouts/partial... Basically it's very badly written elisp code that populates the same org file with metadata like week number etc. and then I have a custom hugo layout for writing out the weeks into posts. All of this is tied together by https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo
- eimrine 3y agoI would throw one more. Because: 20 years old is too late to start any personal development, try this approach with stones to 10 years old instead. 50 years old is a final point due to "A Mathematician's Apology" by Hardy.
- jacobn 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mathematician%27s_Apology ‘In his foreword to the 1967 edition of the book, C. P. Snow describes the Apology as "a passionate lament for creative powers that used to be and that will never come again".’
- brailsafe 3y ago20 years old is too late to start any personal development? Is that a reference to the book or a genuine opinion?
- eimrine 3y agoWell it is obvious that the father does this when his son is a 20 yo. And it is obvious that this is a clever hint. My point is why not to do this when his son is 10 yo?
- martyvis 3y agoProbably because the father was only just 30 when his son had turned 10 and hadn't realised yet that he had already lost 3 stones. That said I feel I still have plenty to share with my children and now grand children - each day is a gift and each one will have mundane tasks, challenges and triumphs that all need to be dealt with accordingly.
- rrrrrrrrrrrrr 3y agoWhy not stone the child at birth? Maybe at ten the child would be able to understand the words, but do you really learn the lesson when they have not yet spent a decade of being a teenager that is now over?
- McDyver 3y agoHow has that influenced you? Is it something you remember frequently? Did you make any decisions keeping that in mind? Would you say it had a positive impact in your life, and gave it more meaning? Or would you rather not have been given that awareness? I find it a great metaphor, and I'm planning to tell my kid about it