Depressing and inspiring.
My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.
My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.
- https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/content-org/wee...
- https://github.com/geekodour/diary/blob/main/layouts/partial...
Basically it's very badly written elisp code that populates the same org file with metadata like week number etc. and then I have a custom hugo layout for writing out the weeks into posts.
All of this is tied together by https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo
Is it something you remember frequently? Did you make any decisions keeping that in mind? Would you say it had a positive impact in your life, and gave it more meaning? Or would you rather not have been given that awareness?
I find it a great metaphor, and I'm planning to tell my kid about it
20 years old is too late to start any personal development, try this approach with stones to 10 years old instead.
50 years old is a final point due to "A Mathematician's Apology" by Hardy.
‘In his foreword to the 1967 edition of the book, C. P. Snow describes the Apology as "a passionate lament for creative powers that used to be and that will never come again".’
Is that a reference to the book or a genuine opinion?
Maybe at ten the child would be able to understand the words, but do you really learn the lesson when they have not yet spent a decade of being a teenager that is now over?
That said I feel I still have plenty to share with my children and now grand children - each day is a gift and each one will have mundane tasks, challenges and triumphs that all need to be dealt with accordingly.
At age 10 you're still truly a child, you don't know shit about shit. Age 20, you still probably don't know shit about shit, but you might