How to understand the value of each day

The fact that time is elusively passing and necessary appreciateWe've heard since we were kids. But even to realize this fact, we sometimes need a good third of our lives.





The satirists Ilf and Petrov were infinitely right when they wrote these not at all funny lines: You always think: I will still have time. There will be plenty of milk and hay in my life. In fact, it will never happen again”.





In this article "Site" He will try to visualize the duration of human existence, so that everyone can visually realize that it is time to stop. put off important things.

The average life expectancy in Russia for the first half of 2019 was 73.7 years.





We took it with a large margin and plotted 90 years. It would seem that every year is very long and you can do so much.





But is that really true? If you look closely, it turns out that we have not been given so many months.





And even the graphically presented number of weeks that after 30 “whistles like bullets to the temple” can be easily looked at and counted in a couple of minutes.





Especially since most of the table really should have been omitted. From birth to 6-7 years, we are almost unaware of our existence. Personality is truly formed only by the age of 12. With rare exceptions, real opportunities to realize our aspirations appear after the age of 16.





From time immemorial, people have sought to find a miracle that helps to preserve eternal youth, but we still reach the peak of productivity at 26 years old, and then the curve of abilities inexorably creeps down. More experience, but fewer neural connections.





The second half of life is occupied by maturity and old age, when there is not so much energy, and health problems are growing. So most of us only have a chance to do something meaningful in the first half of the chart.





There is no time to wait until things change by themselves. There are fewer and fewer unspent squares, so to achieve more, start acting now!

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