Comic Strips @lemmy.world Stamets @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

[Mr Lovenstein] How my back feels

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“For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.”

—Anna Quindlen, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (2012)
- "The years go fast but the days go so slow" - Modest Mouse
  
  "Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb."
  - Mahatma Gandhi
This fills me with dread, thanks!
- How you view death impacts how you live life. You now have a feeling shared and contemplated by all of humankind before you, and all the humankind after you. This is the human condition.
  
  Embrace it, come to terms with it, choose to live today and enjoy rather than worrying about that which you have no control over.
  
  Those words are very easy to type but much harder to live.
  
  Best of luck.
  
  What about counting the probable number of years you have left, and from there the number of things you have time to do? How may meals, movies, vacations left? Can you waste this rest day eating ramen in front of a bad Netflix show?
  Have fun
- Don’t worry because this is exactly how it feels.
  
  I’m in my mid 50s this year and only 5 years ago I was 35. The entirety of my 40s lasted as long as my late 30s.
  
  Gross. I'm turning 30 next year and I'm absolutely not looking forward to this.
Looks like their "friend" is actually draining their life force to stay young themselves.
Ha ha this is funny .... ? .... why'd everything go black ... ?
- Don't you fucking dare. STAY WITH ME!
This is a real phenomenon. The way it was explained to me, it's because of how time takes a relatively smaller percentage of your lifespan when you're older. When you're ten, 5 years represents half your life, so 5 years feels like it passes very slowly; when you're 50, 5 years represents 10% of your life, so 5 years feels like it goes by in an instant.
let me tell you. i'm 39. my 30s are taking FOREVER. depression anxiety and neurodivergence will do that.
I hope there's an afterlife
- You age even faster in the after life. Soon enough eons pass like days.
- I hope not. Eternal life would be horrible.
- Me too. There is a lot of evidence for it that doesn't have religion tied to it if you look hard enough. But it's one of those things you'd have to have direct experience with to believe it.
  
  You took psychedelics too, huh?
  
  Evidence such as?
"...why did you name me this way"
- It's as the prophecy foretold.

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