This Really Is It
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
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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 would be jaw-dropping if it weren’t for the fact that we all do it, all the time.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
#198: Trying to see something
that happiness has little to do with the state of the outside world and everything to do with the state of the inside world. Often the insight is left at that, maybe using an analogy about playing cards, with no discussion about how to actually do that in real life. So in the absence of a snappier explanation, that’s what Raptitude is about: a plai
... See moreDavid Cain • This Will Never Happen Again
But (don’t worry!) we won’t be dwelling here on my personal hang-ups. The universal truth behind my specific issues is that most of us invest a lot of energy, one way or another, in trying to avoid fully experiencing the reality in which we find ourselves.