“living on borrowed time”: our lives are literally on loan to us. Despite what we think in our youth, none of us have all that much time.

“The Tail End” by Tim Urban on the Wait But Why blog—if

And indeed there’s a sense in which every moment of life is a “last time.” It arrives; you’ll never get it again—and once it’s passed, your remaining supply of moments will be one smaller than before. To treat all these moments solely as stepping-stones to some future moment is to demonstrate a level of obliviousness to our real situation that woul