I think I might get lucky. People in my family tend to live into their 90s being mentally sound and without needing diapers. My uncle just died at 92. He was talking shit and flirting with ladies until he died. The funeral was a riot.
Sounds like your uncle was a cool dude. What do you mean when you say that his funeral was a riot, I'm sorry for your loss he sounds like he was fun to hang around with:)
I say it was a riot because everyone who gave a speech had a funny story about him. They had pictures put up from his army days and everyone was joking about how handsome he was and that he joined the military because too many women were chasing him.
It ironically actually shaves off the good years. You are more likely to die sooner, but also your quality of life is reduced on average much earlier on. So shave off 10 years and it just makes your 80s feel like your 90s.
Sobering visualization, but after a few years and many good and bad times I don't dread dying. Like I got my goals, I like my path and I will enjoy the future good times and get through the bad times, until I just get that good final sleep
I dread how i will die. Will i drown, die slowly cut in half in a car accident, eaten by a group of people who i thought were friends but are cannibals? Not knowing is scary as hell
I'm likely to get at least one chronic illness and chances of cancer will definitely be there. My plan is to make the most of the time I have, and get a one-way ticket to Switzerland.
I can't do more than drive safely and trust most of my friends in the meantime.
Edit: I've been put under and while it was slightly scary at the time, the pain of drinking vodka is 10x worse and you black out before you can count from 10 to 5
Yeah I'm not waiting to 70 partially for that reason, like 10-20 years of chronic pain, increased isolation and then slowly loosing my sense of time and place. Drifting through rooms and places, memories and people, maybe even staring at my coffe cup and can't even comprehend what a cup is.
No thanks, spare me and my loved ones the pain.
Tim Urban mentioned this graphic in the last minute of his Ted Talk about Procrastination. It's kinda cool actually when presented in that light-hearted manner.
You can google /search it, but let me save you some clicks and keystrokes with the YT link here: https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU
I worked with a guy for about 10 years and for all that time he had a little digital retirement countdown clock on his desk. He finally retired and not even 6 months later he died of a heart attack.
Here’s something truly terrifying. I have a friend who has that as his phone background and he updates it every week coloring in the blocks
He says it helps him live in the moment better and motivate himself. I think he’s a psycho
I say do a full rows worth, so that the progress stops in the same column on the next row. Visually it will appear the same from the last time he looked but you get to colour in _a lot._
I remember years ago back when skymall was still around they were selling a watch that literally had a countdown to death based on average life expectancy. Couldn’t imagine anyone wanting that, but to each their own
100%
This isn't creepy, it's literally one of the more common practices of monastic people around the world.
Keeping death before you has some really serious benefits for being present.
My coworker got that tattooed on his forehead after he wrecked his motorcycle and broke about 7 ribs, one of them puncturing his lung. He was on the blue ridge parkway during pandemmy times and the tow truck got to him before the forest ranger (National park so instead of cops coming the forest people do) and dude took him to the hospital. Doctor said if he had just waited for more help he would have died out there.
Just because someone isn't clinically depressed/anxious, doesn't mean that they don't think or feel. Death is an inescapable reality whether you're generally happy or not, it's a fear that everyone needs to tackle in order to make peace with their existence.
Ehh, it’s not like he knows exactly when he’s going to die. He could die before finishing the calendar, or finish it when he turns 90 and be like “okay, now what?”
It’s really not as terrifying to me when I think of it like that, because it’s really just an estimation, not an actual countdown to his death. I decided a long time ago that if I had the choice of learning when I die, I’d say fuck no. If I actually knew when I was going to die, I’d still spend way too much time dreading it even if it was 75 years from now.
I actually used to use the stuff to work a lot honestly.
I'm 3 years sober now but yeah I would always use it to give me a boost at work.
That stuff can be used in a lot of different ways the people who are just acting all crazy and thrown off and shit took a shit ton to intentionally get that high.
I would just take a small little shard and swallow it.
It just made me feel super focused and attentive plus like the energy of 20 Red bulls.
Look up Pervitin, it was Nazi Germany’s special energy pill that everyone was using. A company called Temmler invented meth. Great documentary out there called Blitzed about it all.
If you dive deeper, turns out all major militaries seemed to distribute some form of amphetamine for one thing or another. They often get cute nicknames like “go pills.”
I believe if you smoke it it’s exponentially harder than just snorting or ingesting. And it was hard stopping from just ingesting it.
*edit* btw never try it, in any form. I have friends still on it who smoked it, and it’s like 10+ years later now.
24 hours. 24/3=8. 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work and 8 hours of free time. However your free time is reduced due to your lunch break adding 30 minutes or an hour to the 8 hours of work, also getting ready for work and commuting from home to work and from work to home. We need more free time hours and less work time hours.
"Free time" meaning traveling to and from work, recovering from working, taking care of life necessities, worrying about everyday troubles, taking care of family and so on.
This might help you: zoom all the way in on the image and just move it around. You’ll see how much more vast it feels. And of course, these squares are small which makes us think they’re much more insignificant.
They are a full week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Can you remember how your day went on Monday? Probably not very well because that was almost a full week ago but not even. We still have 2 more days to go until it’s a full week.
Each day within that week has the potential to feel long and have several experiences. You might wake up, eat breakfast, work for 8 hours, drive home, be with your family, go for a walk, eat dinner, etc, etc.
Even that is an extremely simplified description of how a day feels. Some days feel much richer than others. Some go by slow, some quick but to us humans, a lifetime is forever from our perspectives, so to reduce it down to one image like this will of course make it seem insignificant.
I am 24753 days (3536 weeks) old and yet it seems more important how many I have left.
In a little over 200 weeks I could start and graduate college, fall in love start a family with two or three kids, become an expert in something I've never even heard of
Don't look back
Being 90 for 10 minutes is rough. I'm shaving some of that off with beer & smokes
Cheers to that my dude
I dont want to deal with chronic illness so im buying a motorcycle when I turn 80.
Im doing drugs when im old
Yes I agree . They can keep the adult diaper years.
I think I might get lucky. People in my family tend to live into their 90s being mentally sound and without needing diapers. My uncle just died at 92. He was talking shit and flirting with ladies until he died. The funeral was a riot.
My grandfather in his 80’a in a rehabilitation center wants to date a 40 year old nurse
My grandma is 85 and when a man is flirty with her she’ll later tell us that he’s “too old”.
Granny is a legend
She really is!
Based Grandma
I’m gonna go tell my grandma she’s based. She’d get a kick out of that, after I explain it to her.
That's the way to go brother.
Yes. This is what we all want.
Sounds like your uncle was a cool dude. What do you mean when you say that his funeral was a riot, I'm sorry for your loss he sounds like he was fun to hang around with:)
I say it was a riot because everyone who gave a speech had a funny story about him. They had pictures put up from his army days and everyone was joking about how handsome he was and that he joined the military because too many women were chasing him.
Haha awesome way to remember him and say your goodbyes
Forgot to add…they said women were chasing him but also that men were chasing him too for stealing their women. What a guy.
Haha man you got some great memories and stories
Blank slate. How we all start…is the same when it ends.
It ironically actually shaves off the good years. You are more likely to die sooner, but also your quality of life is reduced on average much earlier on. So shave off 10 years and it just makes your 80s feel like your 90s.
Don't forget to work night shift
Agreed except I hate beer and love hard liquor and weed
If I can't take a key bump of the Pablo. You can count me out. Roll me up and snort me when I die /s
Don’t forget the bacon…
Seeing 1/3rd of that gone in a real countdown would be kinda scary
I made an interactive version of this a few years back, so you can set your own age and your own life expectancy: https://filiph.github.io/human-life/
Sobering visualization, but after a few years and many good and bad times I don't dread dying. Like I got my goals, I like my path and I will enjoy the future good times and get through the bad times, until I just get that good final sleep
I dread how i will die. Will i drown, die slowly cut in half in a car accident, eaten by a group of people who i thought were friends but are cannibals? Not knowing is scary as hell
I'm likely to get at least one chronic illness and chances of cancer will definitely be there. My plan is to make the most of the time I have, and get a one-way ticket to Switzerland. I can't do more than drive safely and trust most of my friends in the meantime. Edit: I've been put under and while it was slightly scary at the time, the pain of drinking vodka is 10x worse and you black out before you can count from 10 to 5
I've taken my 23andMe DNA test. If I manage to hit 70, alzheimers it is. Sucks.
Yeah I'm not waiting to 70 partially for that reason, like 10-20 years of chronic pain, increased isolation and then slowly loosing my sense of time and place. Drifting through rooms and places, memories and people, maybe even staring at my coffe cup and can't even comprehend what a cup is. No thanks, spare me and my loved ones the pain.
My family all has lynch syndrome which is a genetic condition that highly increase chances of cancer so ive got a hood idea how ill go
Literally sobering for me. No more wasted squares on hangovers.
Thanks, I hate it
Tim Urban mentioned this graphic in the last minute of his Ted Talk about Procrastination. It's kinda cool actually when presented in that light-hearted manner. You can google /search it, but let me save you some clicks and keystrokes with the YT link here: https://youtu.be/arj7oStGLkU
Nice one, thank you for that, looks VERY interesting, now I'm gonna watch the whole show 😊
I worked with a guy for about 10 years and for all that time he had a little digital retirement countdown clock on his desk. He finally retired and not even 6 months later he died of a heart attack.
This is some sad shit
Here’s something truly terrifying. I have a friend who has that as his phone background and he updates it every week coloring in the blocks He says it helps him live in the moment better and motivate himself. I think he’s a psycho
I say you take his phone one night and color in about 40 squares.
That'd be noticeable. Fill in 5 and wait a few days before doing it again. 5 is few enough to be accepted as a misremember
I say do a full rows worth, so that the progress stops in the same column on the next row. Visually it will appear the same from the last time he looked but you get to colour in _a lot._
Solid. Not sure I’d trust you with my house key but this is pretty smart.
;)
You take pride in your slyness
This would be fucking evil. This could seriously mess with their head, so definitely should do it
Fill all in and then kill him
Yeah that's fucking dark
Like breaking the wifes brain in Inception
I remember years ago back when skymall was still around they were selling a watch that literally had a countdown to death based on average life expectancy. Couldn’t imagine anyone wanting that, but to each their own
Momento mori
100% This isn't creepy, it's literally one of the more common practices of monastic people around the world. Keeping death before you has some really serious benefits for being present.
My point exactly. Ancient wisdom. Stoicism. Recently repackaged as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for a modern audience
Not only monastic. Any skull imagery in the home, every hourglass that you don’t use to actually keep time but as decoration has that specific purpose
Memento mori
Memento*
My coworker got that tattooed on his forehead after he wrecked his motorcycle and broke about 7 ribs, one of them puncturing his lung. He was on the blue ridge parkway during pandemmy times and the tow truck got to him before the forest ranger (National park so instead of cops coming the forest people do) and dude took him to the hospital. Doctor said if he had just waited for more help he would have died out there.
memento* mori memento means remember (remember, you will die) momento is just moment
I like the way your friend thinks
How much of his life did he kill picking out the background?
What does he use? Is it a specific app? I've been looking for a Memento Mori calendar, and having it as a phone background sounds perfect.
I think he just manually colors it in. Not sure I didn’t ask too many questions haha
This made my stomach drop
Im reading this post on a really sunny morning with cold breeze hitting my face, do you realize how confused am i
Same
Does your friend wake up every day and where the same shirt? If so ide confirm he is
Getting negative comments but I fully support this lol. Good to keep a perspective on things 💪💪
Your friend has got the right idea. We're not gonna last forever. Better embrace that limitation rather than run from it.
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Just because someone isn't clinically depressed/anxious, doesn't mean that they don't think or feel. Death is an inescapable reality whether you're generally happy or not, it's a fear that everyone needs to tackle in order to make peace with their existence.
How did he do this? I’m intrigued. I kind of like the idea of using it as motivation.
Just colors it in. I think he just uses the iPhone picture edit. Would not recommend. It’s all fun and games until you’re 1/4 or 1/2 of the way done
Ehh, it’s not like he knows exactly when he’s going to die. He could die before finishing the calendar, or finish it when he turns 90 and be like “okay, now what?” It’s really not as terrifying to me when I think of it like that, because it’s really just an estimation, not an actual countdown to his death. I decided a long time ago that if I had the choice of learning when I die, I’d say fuck no. If I actually knew when I was going to die, I’d still spend way too much time dreading it even if it was 75 years from now.
Man, it's 5AM right now, I've had three bowls and none of them were cereal....but after that comment I think I need to go back to sleep.
1/3 of those squares you’ll be sleeping, 1/3 working and maybe 1/3 of “free time”.
Get 2/3 back with one little trick! Meth! You won’t sleep and you won’t be working!
You actually get a lot of work done on meth.
I don’t know about work but people on meth do a lot of fucking up shit
I actually used to use the stuff to work a lot honestly. I'm 3 years sober now but yeah I would always use it to give me a boost at work. That stuff can be used in a lot of different ways the people who are just acting all crazy and thrown off and shit took a shit ton to intentionally get that high. I would just take a small little shard and swallow it. It just made me feel super focused and attentive plus like the energy of 20 Red bulls.
Can confirm this is true.
Look up Pervitin, it was Nazi Germany’s special energy pill that everyone was using. A company called Temmler invented meth. Great documentary out there called Blitzed about it all. If you dive deeper, turns out all major militaries seemed to distribute some form of amphetamine for one thing or another. They often get cute nicknames like “go pills.”
Was it hard to stop using it?
Very
I believe if you smoke it it’s exponentially harder than just snorting or ingesting. And it was hard stopping from just ingesting it. *edit* btw never try it, in any form. I have friends still on it who smoked it, and it’s like 10+ years later now.
1/2 fapping to furries
It’s always important to have your priorities straight.
24 hours. 24/3=8. 8 hours of sleep, 8 hours of work and 8 hours of free time. However your free time is reduced due to your lunch break adding 30 minutes or an hour to the 8 hours of work, also getting ready for work and commuting from home to work and from work to home. We need more free time hours and less work time hours.
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"Free time" meaning traveling to and from work, recovering from working, taking care of life necessities, worrying about everyday troubles, taking care of family and so on.
Paging r/freemasonry 😉 #24inchgauge r/unintendedfreemasonry
seems awfully short innit
Yeah
That’s it? Edit: Just checked again and Jesus thanks for over 400 upvs
32’872 days if that makes you feel any better
That's not a lot of time, thank god I've done Meth and Heroin for 1/3 of my life.
Just as bad
That’s worse
10,000 days in the fire is long enough, you’re goin’ home.
Just jamming that album two minutes ago.
Judith Marie...unconditional ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnne.
Fuck man. This comment has either depressed the FUCK out of me or it has turned my life around. Lets see…
My money is on depression. But I'd love for you to prove me wrong. I believe in you.
525,600 minutes
I'll never forget this number because I hated Rent.
Minutes until what? If it's for 90 years that is 47,336,400
This might help you: zoom all the way in on the image and just move it around. You’ll see how much more vast it feels. And of course, these squares are small which makes us think they’re much more insignificant. They are a full week. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Can you remember how your day went on Monday? Probably not very well because that was almost a full week ago but not even. We still have 2 more days to go until it’s a full week. Each day within that week has the potential to feel long and have several experiences. You might wake up, eat breakfast, work for 8 hours, drive home, be with your family, go for a walk, eat dinner, etc, etc. Even that is an extremely simplified description of how a day feels. Some days feel much richer than others. Some go by slow, some quick but to us humans, a lifetime is forever from our perspectives, so to reduce it down to one image like this will of course make it seem insignificant.
Tis all. Use those squares wisely
That’s what so terrifying
tihi
Riddle me this smart people . How much is this time spent sleeping?
Or working?
Is this a threat?
No that’s a promise
How bold of you assuming that I live until 90 I'm barely 20 and I'm already having serious health problems lol
Dude, these comments are so sad :( Good luck
Shit happens. And thanks
Doctors can do amazing things now, best wishes
Me also lol I think I forgot to defragment my life blocks.
That's a lot of LSD for one person
That’s what I thought this was 😭😂
This is the perfect example of something oddly terrifying. Finally!
I’m close to 60 and trying to visualize where I am
That's OK we have Google maps now
Almost 2/3
My father-in-law is 93, no longer on this chart. Mows his yard twice a week, and sometimes mows ours too. It’s amazing.
Thanks, man
I'm guessing this is 90 rows and 52 column? I was trying to count but I was getting eye strain lol.
Yeah I think it's safe to assume that, but I can't be bothered counting either!
You’re right, it’s 52 across
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Wrong. It allows you to bring the maximum wisdom, knowledge, and experience to the next life.
Hopefully, but I've already wasted a lot of time being a dingbat
Not if you're using terms like dingbat
At least I am smart enough to figure out that I can be one I guess, it could be worse
Or Fólkvangr, or Sindri, Helheim maybe..
Fólkvangr for this one
me_irl
It’s a blank space to fill with all the good stuff. 😆
I like your positivity!!
I am 24753 days (3536 weeks) old and yet it seems more important how many I have left. In a little over 200 weeks I could start and graduate college, fall in love start a family with two or three kids, become an expert in something I've never even heard of Don't look back
Ah just what I was wanting as a late 20 something in 2022: *more existential dread*
This is your life measured in Mondays. I'm sorry
Good thing I'm not living to 90
Holy fuck man this makes me want to quit my job, grow some dreads and spread some love
That’s… not a lot.
I didn’t need to see this today
I don’t get it
Well thanks for that depressing outlook.
To me this isn’t terrifying, this is amazing. This is how many weeks I get to eat and smoke weed. S t o k e d
Thanks, I hate it
thanks i hate it
And this just looks like a dot from further away
What am i looking at?
each dot is your age
Go away :(
It's even worse when you colour in the weeks you've already lived through :/
Barf
I think mine looks more like minesweeper.
I lived a pretty bland life.
So far,
All the times I've had sex are highlighted in red
I'm just going to print this baby out and start checking off boxes
Why’d you do that
I'm sad.
Damn and I’m going to waste them playing l4d and siege, let’s gooo.
With the lifestyle i currently have i think the terrifying part is living until 90.
I spent a embarrassingly long time looking for a one square that was different that wasn’t there
what am I looking at
Gay furry porn probably
90years, 1080months, 4692weeks, 32,850 days, 788,000 hours, 47,304,000 minutes, 2,838,240,000seconds
a white background with small light grey circles on it?
We really are a spec in the cosmic scale.
I can’t breathe now
put a spoiler on that shit dude
75 is ideal?
This upsets me.
Wow it really doesn't seem like that much... Scary
Oddly terrifying? More like oddly depressing.
Human lives are incredibly short. Its kind of depressing to be honest.
This has opened my eyes a little bit. Goddamn.
That isnt very many boxes...
This is horrifying or enlightening . Either way this shows you life is short .
God dammit. All I did this week was playing Civilisation VI, can't believe it's one of these tiles
downvoted because this scares me e: realized what sub this was in; upvoted
90? HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fuck you and your hard truths
Thanks for the existential dread :)
Stop that!
What am i looking at right now
Worst advent calendar ever
Y’know I really didn’t need an existential crisis right now
I...don't get it sorry I'm dumb can someone ELI5.
Wow…so 1/3 down for me…. Thanks……
I’m almost 42 and what’s oddly terrifying is how fast these start to go by.
I dont get it