@Moon @bonifartius you're gonna keep yourself alive on FOMO indefinitely

@cereal @bonifartius not indefinitely

@Moon i just want to die quick, not dragged out over months. i'm not _eager_ to die, but i think acknowledging ones mortality really puts stuff into perspective: "do i really want to waste my time doing this?".

not necessarily about things like binge watching a series, that's fine if it feels good, but the bigger things in life.

e.g. thinking about what you really need vs. taking up a loan. which most often ends in the "i have to work shitty job to pay off loan" trap.

@cereal

@bonifartius @Moon counter point, tho: this whole "I need to get things done soon, I might die" also leads to myopia and wastefulness because being faster is now the only relevant factor.

@cereal @bonifartius I already pack my days full of things to do anyway, my issue is not enough time

@Moon @bonifartius have you tried not doing that?

@cereal @bonifartius I like it.

@cereal that is the wrong conclusion: quantity over quality.

i'd argue that it's a great problem of our time that there is so much to do and that it is expected to do them. i think it's about selecting the things which really matter to one.

i tend to fall into the "too much to do" trap also, but i try to change that. when it works, i'm definitively more happy.

@Moon

@bonifartius @cereal I wasted half my life to depression, it's partially cured now, enough that I can _do_ things. And I love that I can do things and I mourn the time I lost to depression.

@Moon @bonifartius that time spent mourning is also lost to depression.

@Moon @bonifartius @cereal i feel similarly about the time i lost to depression & loneliness; my entire childhood and early adulthood was basically completely wasted and i'm never going to get it back

@bonifartius @Moon you may want that, I may want that. Some achieve it. Most, apparently, don't. So whether or not we would like that, the result is most likely different. Even if you were to eliminate societal factors, there's still some ancient biology left driving that truck at high speed for no reason.

@velartrill
without death it's only the same shit over and over again. with the perspective of not dying, things lose their meaning. why bother, there is an infinite number of days.
i find great beauty looking at the cycles in nature.
@Moon

@bonifartius @Moon to me the prospect of dying drains everything of its meaning