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Viewing life as the passing of seasons instead of years
| Richard Ames | 04/06/26 |
| Consuela | 04/06/26 |
| Richard Ames | 04/06/26 |
| Consuela | 04/06/26 |
| Richard Ames | 04/06/26 |
| Consuela | 04/06/26 |
| Richard Ames | 04/06/26 |
| Surfeando las estrellas | 04/06/26 |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Richard Ames I've started thinking more and more about life as a passing of seasons. So instead of thinking "well I will probably have to work another 10 years," I've started thinking "shit, I have to watch winter turn to spring another 10 times while I do a bunch of bullshit for a living?"
Maybe it sounds retarded, but framing it this way has made me view almost all modern "work" as inherently insane. People "working" until they're 65 (lol) or later. And increasingly the work is more and more abstract and simply managing a series of tools (and soon maybe "agents"). We are more "productive," but the freed up time isn't actually given back to people. It just creates an expectation of more time spent "working."
Meanwhile, winter turns to spring. Spring turns to summer. And you're too busy "working" to notice until it's too late. |
Date: April 6th, 2026 4:13 PM Author: Consuela what would you want to do in retirement? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798297) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:15 PM Author: Richard Ames I am not sure. Spend way less time on computer. To some degree it is less about retirement and more a desire for work that feels real. I have a lot of agency in my work, but it is still tied to abstractions. Starts to take a toll. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798302) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:16 PM Author: Consuela can you do "work that feels real" when you're not "working that feels fake" to pay the bills? why do you have to wait until you're almost dead? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798304) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:45 PM Author: Richard Ames I am trying, but it isn't like flipping a switch unfortunately. I have it pretty good, all things considered. But the more I think about things through this lens the more insane most "work" becomes. I really feel for a huge majority of people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798414) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:49 PM Author: Consuela “It is also important to bear in mind as well that Boccaccio, a writer of the highest caliber, had a day job. Like the Gen-Xers to come, he sold out and went into working world, taking up the family mantle of civic responsibility. He went on important missions for Florence and performed a number of government jobs, including welcoming Petrarch to the city, beginning a great and influential friendship. But he was never fully free to pursue his art, a fact true of nearly every artist then and up to the present. Consider that greats like Brunelleschi and Michelangelo were businessmen working on commissions; their time spent managing staff and studios must have far outweighed their time with brush and chisel. Even profoundly prolific writers like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were employed full-time as professors and had all the demands of family life (weirdly in Lewis’s case) as well. Let this be a lesson to those of us who would be artists if we had more time; we always have time to do the things that are important to us. The habits of industry and discipline mean as much as imagination and creativity.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798422) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:55 PM Author: Richard Ames (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798449) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 4:29 PM Author: Surfeando las estrellas 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854247&forum_id=2#49798353) |