Make the most of every moment
Make the most of every moment
When you realize you're in "good days" the feeling is called bittersweet. Therefore one should make the most, as soon as you realize the time is bittersweet. This helps prevent regrets of "not doing enough" later. Like today, it's not too late to make the most of your upcoming weekend.
I did enjoy living in the future before the dystopia set in. Good times.
I'm a time-traveller, and one of the things that sent me reeling was realizing just how unaffordable housing had become, and how bad inflation had gotten over time.
I went house shopping in 1995 as a curiosity and the realtor goes: "Well, we have a lovely three bedroom starter home available for $150,000".
My eyes almost bulged out of my head, because a monobloc one-bedroom "starter home" goes for almost $9 million in 2083.
Its not possible; good old days always exist as a retrospective of the past, you never experience the present with all the bad parts removed
This is why stoicism has the concept of prospective retrospection.
What if you experience the present without any bad parts?
Brain damage?
There have been a few distinct moments in my life where I understood that I was living my good ol days.
It's now, because every day after just gets a bit worse.
If you wake up on a rainy Monday morning and feel okay about going to work then you're living your best life.
Hardy Fox of The Residents tells a great personal story about the exact sentiment expressed in this meme:
The Residents - Life Would Be Wonderful
The story is told at about 2m40s in.
Rule of thumb: it will always get worse in some way, so you will always remember the past fondly, also because you usually tend to forget the bad parts.