Re:Life Is Short (2016)
by photochemsyn on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:25AM
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For perspective:
> "After the larva stage, female mayflies usually live less than five minutes, while males can live a whopping two days. But they don't waste a single minute, spending that short period of time mating and reproducing"
Even the luckiest ones among us get to do a tiny fraction of personally meaningful activities.
As I am piggybacking my youngest one up the stairs, I am enjoying the trek as much as she does. I have this illusion of immortality, surely nothing bad could happen to us this very moment.
Surely that is my elephant/lizard part of the brain. My rider part keeps telling me I could be doing other more egoistical hedonistic activities instead.