We live for 78 years.
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This infographic might be fake. The shopping man color doesn't correspond with its circle slice color. I think it's photoshoped.
(rough calc)
6hrs * 200days * 12years (4-16) = 14400 hours or 600 days
6hrs * 200days * 5years (16-21) = 250 days
so 850 days total, or ~2.5 years
chart says 3.5 years, not sure how they came to that amount, might include informal education, like watching documentary's lol
So why did you comment? Aren't you late for your shift? I think you're on drive through tonight.
High school and college are often longer days than elementary school. Consider that there is often homework on top of this. I never did my homework in elementary and high school, but I would put in almost as many hours at home as I did in college classes, sometimes forgoing sleep to do so. Also, many people continue take courses throughout their lives for any number of things.
80 of these then you die. Make it count.
Sad. But there is one thought even more sad than that.
Watch your grandparents or parents. Observe when they buy lets say a new TV set. This might be a last TV set they will own. Last lamp they buying, last car. You don't think about it in your twenties but when you reach your sixties - sit down and think about your yellow desk lamp from IKEA as perhaps the last lamp you will ever own.
We live through 2-3 furniture sets, 3-5 cars, few times of being in love. Very few unforgotten beautiful moments.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLIPmoBEMg4]Alan Watts - The Human Game - YouTube[/ame]
To expand on Alan Watts, life is a game but we get so easily pulled in to minuscule distractions and stress ourselves excessively because we forget we only have these years right here and then it's over for good. I've been taught to not think about death since the only kind of conclusions one can come to are depressive. Years ago as I was studying philosophy I learned exactly that - I started thinking about the meaning of death and once you truly understand the void it hits you hard and it really is depressing.
But lately thinking about death has become liberating for me. If you think about death in conjunction with life it becomes a great motivator to appreciate your life more. And the fact we don't appreciate it enough stems from the unconscious belief it will take so long to get to the "finish line" it's not even worth thinking of it, ie believing you'll live forever. I don't know if this is a western mentality kind of thing but it's the reason people take unnecessary life threatening risks and at the same time the reason for the opposite: living your life in an apathetic kind of way. Two weeks ago a friend of mine from high school died at 26 from cancer. I know I'm not inventing anything new here but stuff like that reminds me I can go any day now too. And thinking about that is freeing. Not in the sense of wanting to go of course, but by being aware of my own mortality reminds me I only have one life here and then it's abyss forever.
I'm pretty sure my education lasted longer than 3.5 years but their data is presented in a pie chart format so I must be wrong
Man... because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never lived. - Dalai Lama
I always hated that quote working does not mean sacrificing health. With money you can have the best food, the best medicines, live like a king and experience the best this world has to offer.
