When you get to the end of your life, old and tired, and you look back on all the things you did and time you spent, what will make you say: yes, I did well and it was all worth it?

Put another way, if you have an extra hour tomorrow with nothing planned, what could you do with yourself to later say: I’m glad I did that? What if you have an unplanned day? Or a week? Does how you use that time change? Would the choice of how to use that time be more or less deliberate, depending on how long you have? Does that choice define you as a person?

  • aredditimmigrant@endlesstalk.org
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    9 months ago

    Life well lived for me is the following.

    1. My life ends in a comfy bed surrounded by friends and family having died before becoming a burden on them.
    2. I’ve made a positive impact on those around me
    3. I’ve left my children/family in better financial shape than I was born into (which, frankly, was pretty good already)
    4. I traveled and saw what the world has to offer

    Yeah, life is meaningless, and we’re one small speck in a universe so big it breaks our brains to think about and we only last a similar amount of time in regard to the vastness of time itself. . … so I might as well make myself and the people around me feel good

    As far as the short term? Have a good conversation with friends/family, go for a walk through a nearby forest.