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Beautiful to read, manMarcus Aurelius aside, I totally agree with this. Each day the probability of it being your last approaches 1 so make the most of it. This is why every morning I try to make sure everyone leaves the house happy with each other, each evening the same, and put the effort into doing the things that I’ll enjoy but feel lazy about.
I’m not as old as you @Deadmanposting but I’m hitting 40 this year and reflecting on my life, I’ve got some great wins but clearly some deficits too. Too much time working, weekends gone in the lab, being narky when I didn’t need to be at home, not looking after myself for most of my life, and not spending enough time with the people who make my life better.
I was inspired by your recent push up proselytising and have started working on my fitness again. I’ve been doing exercises to get up to doing push ups properly, hitting it every day except in extremis. I’ve cut out a lot of the crap I’ve been eating. I’ve started booking gigs again. And for the past year or so I’ve been hitting therapy with a renewed determination to working on the relationships that matter and not just my own shit.
I want to look back on a fulfilling life and I don’t want to just be defined by just my career and for hitting the standard grown up milestones of marriage, house, and kids. And I feel like life is great right now because of this focus.
You have it dead right - just making these extra efforts to have good and better days doesn't take so much
But the impact of stacking good and better days on top of each other, is it leads to a good & better life