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Why we obsess over time remaining versus time spent

I lie awake calculating how many years I probably have left and whether I have wasted too many of them already.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mortality awareness transforms time into a scarce resource, leading to compulsive accounting of what has been lost versus what remains.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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