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“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for th

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.” ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

paulcole 1y ago
Bro never spent 2 hours watching Margin Call in 35 second chunks with a weird filter on top.
- _dain_ 1y ago
  We are streaming to willing viewers at the current fair market price
- lurk2 1y ago
  2000s Era Historical Bro Movie Edit with a film grain filter and nu metal hip-hop music imploring the viewer to embrace the opportunity to die in battle and then you scroll down and it’s a Peter Explains Subway Surfers video.
  - paulcole 1y ago
    Woman whispering in Thai in the background for some reason
kadoban 1y ago
The heedless luxury and "no good activity" are some of the better parts of life. Personally I live for the every day, I'm not worrying too much about what I will regret for a few hours on my last day(s) if I even make it there.
- mastazi 1y ago
  As a teen I attended a school with a curriculum focused on classical studies (Italian "Liceo Classico") and reading your comment I immediately thought "Oh, this commenter must be from the Epicurean School" LOL Some quotes by Epicurus: > Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. > The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments. And this absolute banger: > Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
  - PaulDavisThe1st 1y ago
    Death is not a concern. Dying is. For most of us, dying is an extended (often multi-year) process, not some instantaneous transformation from existence to non-existence.
  - kadoban 1y ago
    Yes, exactly, thank you! I have a terrible memory for names and specific quotes, but those ideas stuck with me quite well from my days of studying philosophy. The last one definitely heavily impacted my thoughts on death and dying back when death was a dreaded, distant destination.
- PaulDavisThe1st 1y ago
  Then consider what you may regret for the last 10 years of your life, when your mobility, sight and hearing capabilities are all degraded either a lot or a little, and you look back and realize that you spent 3000 hours on youtube shorts.
  - yoyohello13 1y ago
    If All my senses have been significantly degraded for the past 10 years I would probably regret not living in a country that allows assisted suicide.
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paulcole 1y ago

Bro never spent 2 hours watching Margin Call in 35 second chunks with a weird filter on top.

_dain_ 1y ago
We are streaming to willing viewers at the current fair market price
lurk2 1y ago
2000s Era Historical Bro Movie Edit with a film grain filter and nu metal hip-hop music imploring the viewer to embrace the opportunity to die in battle and then you scroll down and it’s a Peter Explains Subway Surfers video.
- paulcole 1y ago
  Woman whispering in Thai in the background for some reason

kadoban 1y ago

The heedless luxury and "no good activity" are some of the better parts of life. Personally I live for the every day, I'm not worrying too much about what I will regret for a few hours on my last day(s) if I even make it there.

mastazi 1y ago
As a teen I attended a school with a curriculum focused on classical studies (Italian "Liceo Classico") and reading your comment I immediately thought "Oh, this commenter must be from the Epicurean School" LOL Some quotes by Epicurus: > Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. > The present moment is the only moment available to us, and it is the door to all moments. And this absolute banger: > Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
- PaulDavisThe1st 1y ago
  Death is not a concern. Dying is. For most of us, dying is an extended (often multi-year) process, not some instantaneous transformation from existence to non-existence.
- kadoban 1y ago
  Yes, exactly, thank you! I have a terrible memory for names and specific quotes, but those ideas stuck with me quite well from my days of studying philosophy. The last one definitely heavily impacted my thoughts on death and dying back when death was a dreaded, distant destination.
PaulDavisThe1st 1y ago
Then consider what you may regret for the last 10 years of your life, when your mobility, sight and hearing capabilities are all degraded either a lot or a little, and you look back and realize that you spent 3000 hours on youtube shorts.
- yoyohello13 1y ago
  If All my senses have been significantly degraded for the past 10 years I would probably regret not living in a country that allows assisted suicide.

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