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Has anyone in their 30s 40s 50s had a sudden change of perception of our own mortality? I found myself thinking a lot about it recently (no significant events around me). I just find life so ephemeral now as compared to how I used to see life so grand and long it might as well have been infinite. Not anymore. I guess it’s part of growing old. Anyone else feel similar?

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in my case it happened much sooner, at 16 to be exact

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Yep. IMO it’s a good thing. But there’s still a grand and long scale: how is that we arrived here at all, a momentary ripple in a larger fabric?

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More the opposite direction for me. I’m so stressed, overworked, and beaten down by life that I don’t have the energy to worry about mortality like I did when I was younger.

When I die at least I won’t have to go to work anymore, is my thinking.

And I like my job, I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who don’t.

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Yes, it’s very common (mostly) in men at that age.

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