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WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
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Has anyone in their 30s 40s 50s had a sudden change of perception of our own mortality? I found myself thinking a lot about it recently (no significant events around me). I just find life so ephemeral now as compared to how I used to see life so grand and long it might as well have been infinite. Not anymore. I guess it's part of growing old. Anyone else feel similar?
in my case it happened much sooner, at 16 to be exact
Yep. IMO it's a good thing. But there's still a grand and long scale: how is that we arrived here at all, a momentary ripple in a larger fabric?
Yes, it's very common (mostly) in men at that age.
More the opposite direction for me. I'm so stressed, overworked, and beaten down by life that I don't have the energy to worry about mortality like I did when I was younger.
When I die at least I won't have to go to work anymore, is my thinking.
And I like my job, I can't imagine what it's like for people who don't.