For sure, “live like it’s your last day” is a very different thing, and not good advice. You should also take your chance at making a memory when it comes (within reason), but you should also go to work (preferably at a job you can at least tolerate).
There’s things that don’t fall in either category that you have to ration, though. Slot machines seem like a pretty uncontroversial example. Gaming or streaming can be worthwhile, YMMV, but few would argue every hour done has been worth it. Doomscrolling is a little bit of a self-own to put on Lemmy, but the same for that.
Basically, it seems like old us would want us to use time, not waste it.
The future seems distant but the past is an instant. Your life seems like it went by in a flash.
You’ve just got to assume any moment now you’ll be elderly and on your deathbed. You never waste time that way.
It sure comes with constant existential angst though.
“If this was my last day alive, would I seriously wanna be going to work?”
…“K, but you gotta plan a little further ahead there, buddy…”
For sure, “live like it’s your last day” is a very different thing, and not good advice. You should also take your chance at making a memory when it comes (within reason), but you should also go to work (preferably at a job you can at least tolerate).
There’s things that don’t fall in either category that you have to ration, though. Slot machines seem like a pretty uncontroversial example. Gaming or streaming can be worthwhile, YMMV, but few would argue every hour done has been worth it. Doomscrolling is a little bit of a self-own to put on Lemmy, but the same for that.
Basically, it seems like old us would want us to use time, not waste it.