#### [[life is too short]] --- [This link says how old i am down to the seconds](http://mycount.org/en/?wm=4&t=717235200000&tz=626560&t1=&t2=&fid=1) We are all slowly dying. We are born to crawl to our graves. Every moment is precious as we came from death / the void, we live for a short while and then we return. We will spend more time being dead than we will ever spend alive. Life is short because of, yes, the literal sense. We will only be alive for a short time. But also life is short because you never know when yours will end. Sure you could die from old age in your bed at the ripe old age of 90+ or you could be hit by a bus tomorrow at age 23 and have your life cut short. The meaning behind [[life is too short]] is that due to the unpredictability of your death, its not worth focusing on negatives, on fighting over unimportant points of contention, to do things not worth doing, and to perpetually postpone those things that ARE worth doing. Life is too short to sacrifice your happiness for drudgery and misery just for social signaling; i.e. working a high paying job for status and wealth when that is not what brings you happiness and may even cost you the things that do^[[[People desire to be a part of something larger than themselves and so devote themselves to their employer#^bb0fbb]]]; Family, Friends, Leisure, Hobbies, Religion^[[[Performative spirituality is not a hollow show rather it is a means of restoring our spiritual energy communal ties and anchor us to the present]]], Etc. --- Tags: [[Family]] - [[Life]] - [[Happiness]] - [[Satisfaction]] - [[Happiness]] - [[Work]] - [[Status]] - [[Social Signalling]] Reference: Related: