A lot of us spend out whole lives trying to figure out what to do with our lives. Meanwhile, we are growing up, working to make a living, and looking forward to retirement. Sometimes you need to step back and look at your life from another perspective. Kurzgesagt isn't going to tell you what you should do with your life, but they have some statistics to help you understand how important your time really is. -via Kottke
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The sufer analogy is so neat! But for me time is just a single big wave and it won't stop even if you fall form the board and drown... So yeah no possibility to "waste" time....However you still may do completely futile things such as playing pigeon chess...
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If you really think about it, you can't actually waste your time/life. In order to waste something, you have to have possession of said thing. Humans don't have possession of time. You could get hit with a stray bullet within a nanosecond, at any moment of the day. That's just one of 10 billion ways the universe can end you at any given moment. And it can happen 10 years from now or 10 seconds from now. Being alive at all is pure luck, if you really think about it. Think of a surfer riding a wave. The surfer is just surfing the wave - he's not in possession of the wave. And the wave can end at any time, or any number of things can interfere with the ride. That's basically our relationship with "Time". We're just riding the wave of time. You can't >waste< what you don't >have<. You can only experience it by pure luck or chance. Jeff Bezos is worth 200 billion dollars, and may live 80 years. Meanwhile, people just as capable as Jeff Bezos starve to death everyday in Africa. Did the starving people "waste their time"? Are they guilty of "not doing the most"? Anyway just some thoughts
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