Sometimes life DOES seem too short

[Cormac]

I don't really think life's too short, but I do have to regularly remind myself not to let the routine get in the way too much. It's easy to to settle into a rut that feel like you don't have time to do anything at all, but with just a small adjustment in perception it's not difficult to find time to do things I enjoy or get round to doing new things I've often wanted to do. I would like more spare time, and to feel less knackered after work, but you've got to make do with what you've got, right?

(But it isn't easy to keep this frame of reference consistently in the face of the slings and arrows).

[Cormac]

I would like to still be around when the first human expedition to the last explored star system in our galaxy is complete, and the message gets back to Earth. Since the lasered message will take 70,000 years to reach us, and the physical travel orders of magnitude longer, that might be an acceptably long life.

You'll be one of the first to upload yourself to a non-organic computer then.

[pErvinalia]

Sometimes I get such an incredible yearning to do so many things (and get good at them). It's like an insatiable hunger which I haven't even started to feed and I'm already halfway through my life (if I'm lucky).

Yeah, same here. I yearn for the day when we can just upload knowledge to our brains a la Matrix style.

[pErvinalia]

Sometimes I get such an incredible yearning to do so many things (and get good at them). It's like an insatiable hunger which I haven't even started to feed and I'm already halfway through my life (if I'm lucky).

Yup. As I realise how much there is to learn about and do, I think that I'd like to live for at least 500 years.

Could do with some of those Matrix "downloads"!

Copy cat.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I don't really think life's too short, but I do have to regularly remind myself not to let the routine get in the way too much. It's easy to to settle into a rut that feel like you don't have time to do anything at all, but with just a small adjustment in perception it's not difficult to find time to do things I enjoy or get round to doing new things I've often wanted to do. I would like more spare time, and to feel less knackered after work, but you've got to make do with what you've got, right?

Easy to say that at your age, whipper-snapper! You have no idea how fast life starts flying a few years down the road!

[Pappa]

I don't really think life's too short, but I do have to regularly remind myself not to let the routine get in the way too much. It's easy to to settle into a rut that feel like you don't have time to do anything at all, but with just a small adjustment in perception it's not difficult to find time to do things I enjoy or get round to doing new things I've often wanted to do. I would like more spare time, and to feel less knackered after work, but you've got to make do with what you've got, right?

Easy to say that at your age, whipper-snapper! You have no idea how fast life starts flying a few years down the road!

Oh idk.... having kids is something that removes an absolute ton of your spare time and adds to the lethargy once they've gone to bed (when you have "free" time). I'm sure I would have done a ton more stuff if I didn't have kids.... but I learned early on after having kids to to see the beauty and wonder in the little things. That helped a lot.

[JimC]

No.

The older I get, and the more tired I get, I see surcease as one of the true blessings. I will go gentle into that good night...

[mistermack]

Don't know about life being too short. I find a DAY too short.
That's because it takes me half a day to get going, and another half to wind down.
The bit in between is too damn short.