The fact that our lives are finite — roughly limited to about a century at most — creates a kind of pressure on everything. Time has more meaning because we have a finite amount of it.<\/p>\n
This pressure from the ends permeates down to every level, creating a kind of fractal. Every year becomes precious, and within that year every month.<\/p>\n
In turn, each day becomes special because it receives that pressure. Within that day, we feel the importance of every hour, every minute and every second.<\/p>\n
If we were to live forever, I wonder whether that pressure, pushing inward from the ends of life, would simply dissipate. Would each moment cease to be so precious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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