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Re:Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017) by cmod on Saturday April 07, 2018 @12:47AM (#16779413)
For an archetype of the anti-sentiment to your post, I highly recommend the autobiography of Donald Keene, renown translator of Japanese literature: Chronicles of my Life: An American in the Heart of Japan [0]. He never stops working on the next project, biting off the next book. It's an inspiring life of rich and endless output, lived in such a gentle (almost heartbreaking) way.

[0] https://amzn.to/2GZk0Am

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Re:Want to Be Happy? Think Like an Old Person (2017) by stewbrew on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:12AM (#16779611)
There's a difference between never stop working and living as if you would never die or having to invent a new life.

As a young person you probably still have to find out who you really are and you tend to see time to live as an unlimited resource.

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