Sometimes life feels like it Will go on forever, the days seem to really drag. But, it isn’t long, it’s really fucking short and with the help of this chart you can see just how fucking short it Is, it’s a 90 year life laid out in weeks.

Here’s a quote from ‘wait but why’

Sometimes life seems really short, and other times it seems impossibly long. But this chart helps to emphasize that it’s most certainly finite. Those are your weeks and they’re all you’ve got. Given that fact, the only appropriate word to describe your weeks is precious. There are trillions upon trillions of weeks in eternity, and those are your tiny handful. Going with the “precious” theme, let’s imagine that each of your weeks is a small gem, like a 2mm, .05 carat diamond

If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon

Looking at this spoon of diamonds, there’s one very clear question to ask: “Are you making the most of your weeks?” In thinking about my own weeks and how I tend to use them, I decided that there are two good ways to use a diamond: 1) Enjoying the diamond 2) Building something to make your future diamonds or the diamonds of others more enjoyable In other words, you have this small spoonful of diamonds and you really want to create a life in which they’re making you happy. And if a diamond is not making you happy, it should only be because you’re using it to make other diamonds go down better—either your own in the future or those of others. In the ideal situation, you’re well balanced between #1 and #2 and you’re often able to accomplish both simultaneously (like those times when you love your job)

Life is short, of course we know this, we all know this on an intellectual level we know one day we will die, We never really feel it I though, I mean really feel it in a emotional sense. For example one day you will take a shit and that shit will be the last shit you ever take, as your taking that shit you may be thinking of all the things you need to do that day but you wont be here to do them. Its always something that will happen to other people. It feels like you have all the time In the word and this can lead us into complacency. Marcus aurillius said this ‘As you kiss your son goodnight, whisper to your self, he may be dead in the morning’ I may sound like I’m being morbid here but stick with me I’m getting to it. My point is, nothing in this life is certain, there is no guarantee that when we tuck our kids in to bed at night, come the morning either of us will be here.

So you have this shitty little spoon full of diamonds, what are you going to chose to do with them? Will you make them more precious for you and your family, will you spend your diamonds lying on the sofa covered in Dorito dust watching porn, will you continue to work that job that you fucking hate because it’s ‘safe’, will you miss the opportunity to get that hot waitresses number because ‘maybe tomorrow’, will you put of that trip To Brazil to trail BJJ because ‘COVID-19’ (ok you have my permission to Skip that one for now) Or will you take your kids on adventures they’ll remember their whole lives?, will you game your wife everyday, will leave your job to grow your side business full time?

Although it may not feel like it, this life is finite, it your time here can and will be measured and one day you WILL die, that we can be certain of. That day may well be tomorrow, shit, it might even be today.

The point I am trying to make here is that we should all be more mindful of this and take the time and awareness to be more present. Your daughter wants you to read to her but your busy with emails? Your son has a big game but you spend the whole time berating some faggot in askMRP because he had the audacity to ask where the sidebar is. Even when we are present we are never truly present.

I’m guilty of this myself, probably more than most but recently I’ve learnt to be more present, maybe your kids want to Play, maybe you have a load of work to catch up on, emails to reply to, faggots to berate, but instead of trying to do it all at the same time, take half an hour out switch of your phone and just be present for that 30 minutes, I find that doing just this is of more value than being ‘there’ all day but never really being ‘there’.

We can all Benefit from remembering how lucky we are, all the things that had to come together for you to even exist, your time is short, are you really going to spend it covered in Dorito dust and crusty Kleenex?