Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for January 06, 2015

Extrapolate. It sucks to be you now. It will continue to suck to be you 150 years from now. But you’ll forget how much it sucked, so you will think you were much happier now than you will be then. That’ll suck, too.

Schopenhauer:

“The scenes of our life resemble pictures in rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to seem beautiful. That is why to attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and why, though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely that in expectation of which they lived.”

@emptc12. Thanks, I needed that at age 71 and 6:30 AM. Then again, it’s very perceptive and I’ll probably steal it within the next few weeks, if not sooner.

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