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How mortality awareness can prevent meaningful connection

I keep postponing difficult conversations with people I love because talking about real things feels like acknowledging that time is running out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure of finite time paradoxically creates avoidance of the very intimacy that would make that time meaningful.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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