You've given me another helpful reminder that finishing a will is still unfinished on my to-do list. Thanks for the kick in the pants and reference to the GYST website list.
I just listened to the Radiolab episode on The Cataclysm Sentence (“What’s the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation that would contain the most information in the fewest words?”) and was incredibly moved by the sentence that producer Rachael Cusick shared at the end, which is a quote from Ram Dass:
"We're all just walking each other home."
I just thought that was such a beautifully succinct reminder that we are all going to die and that what we have in the meantime is each other...so how can we make the most of each other's company on our walk home.
Dana! I *love* that line. It’s worthy of becoming a tattoo on a forearm and I hope that someone has.
You sent me down a fun Internet rabbit hole. I discovered that while she was a student at Cornell, she had a college radio show/podcast about “the biggest failures of Ivy League professors.” And that she recently produced an episode about the joy of solitude on a bike. I think I’ve become a fanboy and I wonder what she’ll be doing next.
Glad to hear that I inspired at least one person to get their shit together :) I love that the process motivated you to think about life. I was wrapped up in fear about what the hell would happen to my kids if we both somehow died and all the negative thoughts that spiral from there... not particularly helpful. This makes me think that the GYST checklist should have a complementary one - once you plan for death, an exercise to plan the rest of your "fulfilling life."
Ooh, I like that. A final checkmark at the end: "Now go enjoy life to the fullest!" I was really surprised (and reassured) looking at the actuarial tables of just how unlikely it is that we'll die in the next 12 months. It's like, sure, there's a 0.3% chance that there might be a nuclear war or asteroid collision, but probably not worth spending *too* much time thinking about.
Too funny, currently reading Atomic Habits, and now I know I don’t have to finish it.
You've given me another helpful reminder that finishing a will is still unfinished on my to-do list. Thanks for the kick in the pants and reference to the GYST website list.
I just listened to the Radiolab episode on The Cataclysm Sentence (“What’s the one sentence you would want to pass on to the next generation that would contain the most information in the fewest words?”) and was incredibly moved by the sentence that producer Rachael Cusick shared at the end, which is a quote from Ram Dass:
"We're all just walking each other home."
I just thought that was such a beautifully succinct reminder that we are all going to die and that what we have in the meantime is each other...so how can we make the most of each other's company on our walk home.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/cataclysm-sentence-2306
Dana! I *love* that line. It’s worthy of becoming a tattoo on a forearm and I hope that someone has.
You sent me down a fun Internet rabbit hole. I discovered that while she was a student at Cornell, she had a college radio show/podcast about “the biggest failures of Ivy League professors.” And that she recently produced an episode about the joy of solitude on a bike. I think I’ve become a fanboy and I wonder what she’ll be doing next.
Glad to hear that I inspired at least one person to get their shit together :) I love that the process motivated you to think about life. I was wrapped up in fear about what the hell would happen to my kids if we both somehow died and all the negative thoughts that spiral from there... not particularly helpful. This makes me think that the GYST checklist should have a complementary one - once you plan for death, an exercise to plan the rest of your "fulfilling life."
Ooh, I like that. A final checkmark at the end: "Now go enjoy life to the fullest!" I was really surprised (and reassured) looking at the actuarial tables of just how unlikely it is that we'll die in the next 12 months. It's like, sure, there's a 0.3% chance that there might be a nuclear war or asteroid collision, but probably not worth spending *too* much time thinking about.