(and I’d love others to embrace it). However, I am making choices that are different from your own, so I guess I put some of them here in the comments to highlight that being onboard with the principle will yield different results based one’s preferences.
treating spending time with friends as last opportunity ever
this usually results in making effort to fly to meet them
offering to pay friends and family to visit me (symmetric with one above but less conventional)
getting driver’s license with the expectation that it would only be meaningful to use for a few years not a lifetime
saying what I think and writing it down publicly, including writing these comments now
trying to be less risk-averse in general
I guess I also have an underlying intuition that we are about to enter the period of turmoil, so I am trying to take advantage of functioning infrastructure like commercial flights or mortgages while it lasts.
I think I am personally
Living like we only have 5 years left
(and I’d love others to embrace it). However, I am making choices that are different from your own, so I guess I put some of them here in the comments to highlight that being onboard with the principle will yield different results based one’s preferences.
So here is me putting money where my mouth is[1]:
having kids
treating spending time with friends as last opportunity ever
this usually results in making effort to fly to meet them
offering to pay friends and family to visit me (symmetric with one above but less conventional)
getting driver’s license with the expectation that it would only be meaningful to use for a few years not a lifetime
saying what I think and writing it down publicly, including writing these comments now
trying to be less risk-averse in general
I guess I also have an underlying intuition that we are about to enter the period of turmoil, so I am trying to take advantage of functioning infrastructure like commercial flights or mortgages while it lasts.
and I guess putting mouth back there too?