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mock-possumtoday at 7:30 AM0 repliesview on HN

What do you mean ‘we’

I don’t identify with anything written here.

> Without that horizon, we could defer everything indefinitely. Why start the difficult journey today when you have infinite tomorrows?

because I want to. Don’t you have things you want to do? Don’t you have desires? I don’t want to do it tomorrow, I want to do it now.

> When everything is possible, and nothing is urgent, with no real consequences for time misspent, what do you even care about?

Same thing I care about now - seeking pleasure. There are so many positive, enjoyable, pleasant, pleasureable, exciting, thrilling, gratifying, enlightening, edifying, joyful, enriching, uplifting experiences - I could spend a lifetime pursuing them and never even come close to enjoying them all. Even if I had a thousand lifetimes, by the time I finally finished off the list I started with, there would be exponentially more that had been added since I started.

In all honesty, reading this, I think something is wrong with the author. He does not love life the way he ought to, and that’s a shame, and I resent that he’d project that weakness, as if it’s somehow insightful or laudable or applicable to me.