I've thought about offing myself at 60. I watched my dad get old, and life isn't really that fun anyway, so what is the point? To run the risk of outliving my kids or finances?
I think I'll just hit the eject button early.
I think I'll just hit the eject button early.
I'm now 57. I have one or two minor health issues but (famous last words!) can still do most of the things I want to. I've also decided which side of the life-work balance I want to maximise (life, obviously) and have gone part time, with the support of my employer. So I don't make the mistake of putting things off until I retire, and then finding I don't have the capability to do them.
I decided that the next time someone asks me how old I am, I'm going to say positively 'almost 60' rather than 'late 50s' to show that I am still me and not planning to shuffle off this mortal coil just yet. Even if my feet are nailed to the perch, as it were. I'd change my mind for certain categories of disease, but there is no way I'd set an arbitrary limit.
To investigate what 'life' is!
what is this experience we all uniquely live everyday, each differently. We all want to expand our experience, we choose to do this through business, sex, religion, sports, drugs etc... but each one will never fulfill our appetite, and will always fall short of uniting us with a 'full' experience of the universe.
Its extremely painful for some people to realize that these paths eventually lead to unfulfilled promises. Most would call this a spiritual crisis, when all material desires and things in 'basic' life seem meaningless.
>think I'll just hit the eject button early
You should try sky diving