Not really, but whenever a year in the future is mentioned, I do wonder if I’ll be around for it.
I do the same thing
Same here. I do the math to figure out my age that year, and think about the possibility of living that long. Also if I would want to live that long.
Every time I see a climate change sea level rise projection.
I wouldn’t worry about that. 20 years ago it was predicted by the “experts” that Miami would be under water a decade ago. Nothing has changed.
Not the real experts, but “experts”. Meanwhile projections by the real experts for lots of other things have been too conservative. But it’s okay, Miami isn’t quite underwater yet. Those king tides though…I wouldn’t live there at this point, the writing is on the wall.
When I was a kid, they said entire California would end up in the sea within a few years, since it’s on a earthquake faultline.
That was 1990. :)
Still don’t understand how people continue to “trust” the people who have a long history of predictions that never occurred. It always reminds me of a guy who pays to get “the special picks” for an NFL game. And for years the special picks guy hasn’t ever won a NFL bet
People trust it because scientists make a model. They don’t think about that the model makes many assumptions and if any assumption is wrong, it fails.
On June 2, 2045, I’ll outlive my mother. My father is still alive and in pretty good health. I think I take after him, but I started smoking again recently. I’m tapering off pretty well though and I’m still relatively young.
So we might actually land some people on Mars before you die
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. In 2050 I’ll outlive my dad, but my mom is still alive. I never smoked but my dad did not die of cancer and my mom smoked like a chimney and is still alive.
Never thought about it that way before but maybe 2050, 2060, most likely somewhere in there.
What I did think about the other day, though, was that mindfulness really extends your life, the more you pay attention to, the longer each day is, you are there for more of it.
I keep hoping that THIS will be the year. Every Jan 1 I’m again disappointed.
My maternal grandmother lived to be 96. My paternal grandmother is still alive and will be 100 this year. Her mother, my great grandmother, lived to be 102. Both my parents are still alive and in decent health in their mid 70s. Baring any severe accidents, I feel like I’m going to live into my late 90s, which I’m not thrilled about. My soon to be 100 grandma has been ready to die for a decade. Her husband died in 1992. All her friends are dead. One of her children is dead. Some of the children of her friends are already dead. She is very healthy and lives comfortably with my aunt and uncle, but she’s lonely just the same, and I feel bad for her. Nothing much makes her happy anymore. I know people wish for a long, healthy life, but the idea of outliving everyone you love seems miserable.
Nope. I do however look around me and how other people died and I recognize that if I die at this point its not so young as to be a real shame. Im just at the age where its a little oh wow they died at only X but its not like oh man this person never had a chance at life. Im more scared of not dieing soon enough than of dieing soon. Living a long time in great health is great but living a long time in poor health fucking sucks. This is why diet and excersise is important. Its not about living longer, its about living healthier in the time you got.
I’m looking forward to it. Can’t wait.
Right before they find a practical cheap effective life extension & rejuvenation tech.
It’d be cool to live until 2100 just to have lived in 3 centuries.
No.
I try not to think about it.
I created a countdown timer on my tablet a while back. I’m down to ~9,200 days.
I usually just go with “this one”; been wrong so far but eventually I’ll get it right.
My fam has a lot of people who lived well into their eighties. Based on that, I still have a long ways to go.
Even though you have a long way to go do you ever think about something that is predicted in the future but figure you will be dead by then
No. From what I’ve seen so far some social and environmental things are happening much sooner than I imagined, so it’s hard for me to imagine what might be happening after I’m dead. I usually think more about how much things have changed since I was born and how much things might be different when I die in an abstract way.
