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Death is at your door

.... life is a waiting game

By Jen PhillipsPublished 2 months ago • 1 min read
Death is at your door
Photo by Jon Butterworth on Unsplash

We spend so much time waiting,

5 years, to be more specific.

27 years sleeping.

A third of a human life is just spent sleeping and waiting.

A third of a life is spent on education and work.

2/3 of a human life is already gone.

That honestly doesn't give humans time to enjoy life very much,

By the time we have the opportunity to enjoy the 1/3 of life, we are too tired and can't afford shit.

Why do we humans spend so much of our lives waiting and working?

What would we accomplish in such a small lifetime?

Why are we so tied down to responsibilities?

Why is it so expensive and dangerous to explore the planet we live on?

Eat. Work. Wait. Sleep. Repeat. Until you are dead.

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