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Yes, well those are statistical anomalies. Once you get to a point where in a perfect scenario, you may only have 40 years at best, or 25 years normally, that weighs on your mind and actions. Not to mention, those last 20 years aren't nearly as good from a health/pains perspective as the first or middle 20. "Probable" that I used isn't a good word, more like "inevitable."

When you get a certain age, you know you will be dead in the time it took you to be born and graduate from college. Your window is rapidly closing. What are you going to do with the last 20-40 years? You might not be able to do much because you are stuck working, making someone else rich. You may very well be bound to that job because of health care costs.

When you are young, you may realize this will eventually happen, but you won't really understand it until you are in that situation. It's some heavy shit. People thinking about this sort of thing is probably why humans invented religion and spirituality.




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