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Thanks, Confucius
(lemmy.nz)
A very poetic way to describe "growing up in the personality sense"
Yeah. As a kid people think they are invincible and do stupid reckless shit.
When you realize that's dumb and need to be safe that's the "second life"
I don't think it's a "realization." As conscious minds, we know on a superficial level. But, our organic substrate prevents us for fully integrating and internalizing that knowledge, because we serve its needs better when we don't understand mortality.
Confucius say: Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
That’s why his name is
Confuse ius
(He literally is why we say confuse)
Is it our past vs our future? I don’t understand this.
I interpret it as drawing a distinction between how we live before vs after coming to terms with the fact that our time is limited.
Maybe it’s better to live a full delusional life. #2Lifes2Live!
When you are young you live like you don't care about your future. At some point you realise that you have only one body and that certain things will only get worse, so then you start caring and living more carefully.
For me I changed at some point when I really realized I will die at some point (and so will my parents). You have "two lives" during your one life, and you realize this precisely when you realize you have but one life.
Think about it like a mid-life crisis, or some other point in time where people say "What am I doing with my life?" and then decide (and have the means) to make a change. Now the second life has begun.
Natural selection would tell us that this is survivorship bias.
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this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026
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