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Agreed, life is a lot more enjoyable when you don't worry too much about how you're living it wrong and wasting it.

I especially find the "you only get X weekends with Y" formulation depressing. It makes it sound worse than it is, and enforces a valuation that may not at all be true for you.

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It's a very bleak way to look at it, but sometimes it's a splash of cold water to help you get your priorities straight.

even worse are revelations such as “You’ve already had 90% of the social interaction you’ll ever have with X person”, where X could be someone like your mother or father.

for some people thats "even better" not worse.

Time is such a lousy metric for things like that. I get so much more out of an hour with my mother than I would have when I was 6.

That 5% of time may be a significant portion of the experience (for lack of a better word).

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