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by vasilakisfil 1626 days ago
This is so depressing, and I am left with just over 60%.I can't imagine how someone would feel with just 10% or even less..
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Mine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some.

I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.

I'm about to turn 40, and I feel like perceptually life gets faster and faster, which seems to be a common experience.

So in that sense you may not do all the living you've done all over again and then some.

For example, I'd say my 30s felt half as a long as my 20s, which themselves seemed to pass much faster than than 10-20, which felt very long indeed. And childhood, 0-10, seemed like an eternity!

This is true even at a micro level. E.g. a 3 hour car ride now does not feel like a big deal to me, but it seemed almost unbearably long to me as a child.

Another way in which you won't do as much living as you've already done is that in your early years you went through profound development -- both physically and mentally. That doesn't happen again; we mature, we refine, and (sadly, hopefully not too much), we decline, but it's nothing near as profound as we get to experience early in life.

Don't worry. I've got 14% and I can assure you that years go by at an alarming rate. It started for me at 40. 50 was on me pretty quick but 60 was there before I knew it. Now it's all just a blur. Probably best to do stuff now.
Yep. 55 now, and the same. A year can pass and feel like nothing. Especially the last two COVID years. Just feels like a long nap sometimes. I think it's because as we get older, our lives are not changing much. 0-10 years each year brings big changes in our physical growth, intellectual understanding of the world, literally every day brings something new. 10-20 is similar, but the pace starts to slow down. By the time you're 50, one year is pretty much the same as the another. Kids are grown or close to it, you're probably not job-hopping, you're settled in your home. Everything is routine.
Exactly. I hit 40 a few years back, and I’m statistically likely to live at least that long again. A lot happened in 40 years, and I was not in control of my life for just shy of half of that.

The next 40 is going to be interesting.

>>The next 40 is going to be interesting.

The next 20-25 will be interesting for you - after that you will just be telling people to get off your lawn, and making doctors appointments. ;>)

There is that risk, for sure. That said, i had to tell a kid (with his 4 wheeler) to get off my lawn just yesterday.
The next 40 will feel like about 10 years, maybe less, from the perception of your 20 year old self.
Just remember, you make it depressing by feeling sad about a future event. It's just a clock, which is probably wrong. All manner of things could happen tomorrow to the person with 10% left, like dropping dead from (whatever).

Or, you could find yourself in a much better place in a year, and the time you spend doing that better is worth more in a year than the last 5 years where it was not better.

All that we can be certain of is this very moment and not much else. Live it up!

They’re rough averages, and I can’t tell (it gave me NAN) if they’re taking your current age into account. You could die tomorrow, but you also have a roughly equal chance to live into your 100’s. Every year you survive, you have a longer estimated lifespan.

FWIW, as someone in their early 30’s, the chances of you dying this year are somewhere in the 1% range. But your life expectancy has also gone up to 78/83 (male/female), from 76/81 where you were at birth.

I get the same numbers, but the length is more than enough for me. With only 10%, I'd still find the time to get bored and kill time!

More interesting is the quality of life, not how long you have =)

I have 45% left, but how much of that is useful, healthy time?

I just spent 8 years in jail simply because I was broke. What a waste of some of the best years of my life.

My 83 year old mother is probably negative. She's healthy and happy though she's saddened that most of her friends are dead or sick.
Still plenty of time. Live the life!