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Oh my lord, this is grim. For everything that could have been, your life is reduced to worker bee dots and squares on a graph?

These look like tally marks in a Great Escape prison camp, but instead of four walls containing you, it's time. The West is dead, long live the West /s.

Congrats on the marriage and new family.



I think this is really all about which framing you choose.

For me, a visualization like this is more about trying to live life with a greater awareness of the passage of time and to give myself the choice to alter course more often.

I don’t think I’d want to put this on my refrigerator, but it’s a useful periodic orientation thing.

For me personally, I’ve found that contemplating these things head on reduces my underlying generalized anxiety, which seems fueled primarily by the uncomfortable things my brain wants to avoid.


I guess you wouldn’t like the WeCroak app. (Their website appears to have … ahem … died.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230528015034/https://www.wecro...

“The WeCroak app is inspired by a Bhutanese folk saying: to be a happy person, one must contemplate death five times daily.”




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