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.
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.
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.
emerged|4 years ago
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.
dilap|4 years ago
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.
beardyw|4 years ago
falcolas|4 years ago
The next 40 is going to be interesting.
kordlessagain|4 years ago
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!
falcolas|4 years ago
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.
tux3|4 years ago
More interesting is the quality of life, not how long you have =)
kingcharles|4 years ago
I just spent 8 years in jail simply because I was broke. What a waste of some of the best years of my life.
hasbot|4 years ago
radekk|4 years ago