Ok, so life gives you whatever you want, i mean whathever you want, in this physic world, with the law of this physic world. (as long as you can imagine it)

Now imagine this:

You are in a car in point A, and what you want is on point B 1000 km ahead.

You are on straight (linear) highway, daylight, no other cars.

Your car goes to a maximum speed of , lets say, 100km per hour. You are going full speed, because when we want something, we want it now (in this unique moment, there is not other moment), we want want it as soon as we can. So you are going full speed beacuse we want to reach your objective as soon as you can. No problem so far.

Now imagine your car has a maximum speed of 100,000 km per hour, and 100 meters after point B, there is a wall (that you cant crush for obvious reasons) Now lets say you car has average breaks too. What do you think is the right speed to go?

If you go full speed, it almost instant dead. If you go too slow, your not using your maximum potential.

This is not a mathematical test, although there is a right answer, thats not the point of this thread.

The point is you to imaginae what would you do in that situation.

Just have an idea in your mind, of what and why would be the right speed to go.



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Now imagine there is no wall, but every meter you pass troguh point B, you have to drive it on reverse (maximum speed, lets say 20km per hour)


(This could mean, that we want something really bad, we usually go full speed and ended up crushing, or we lose a lot of time going backwards, on reverse) among other things

Damn, this thread is perfect for Masque.

PairTheBoard

Whatever is the best speed to experience, which may be inferred as the speed which experience is.

When is a time which experience exists? Now is the most directly related answer to actually experiencing.

Now is the speed of life.

Check out Plato's philosophy. The Greeks were all about finding a happy medium that maximized the best of everything. Too much of some thing means too little of another, at least according to them.

Clearly, breaks instead of brakes is important.

On life's journey we have to take into account that being young is simply better and you cant catch up later.

Also at some point you will be dead and you can't take it with you.

Epicurean hedonism is the answer but get the maths right. Don't assume all years have equal potential.

I'm much happier with each year.

That's a possible outcome of course. Probably means lots of ev left behind somewhere.

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Or Karma.

Or Amrak.

Which is the same thing.

Aside from body changes, age is just a number and it is far happier ( in my experience) to treat a person other than by pre-expectations of their age, one's self included.

Now this may mean accepting friends who do "act their age" while not holding on to being 'aged' oneself.

However, there is an advantage to youth as youth has the greatest amount of potential to act in a way to achieve happiness, self-realization, wealth, and whatever else a person finds fulfilling to achieve. Not to be fooled by this as the same potential exists for all ages, just we can see and imagine youth having more potential opportunity to fulfill it.

I mean that given identical circumstances, I am just happier now.

Even with worse circumstances, I am just happier now.

Well yes but the body changes are enormous. Not expecting them is a bit silly and going to lead to big mistakes in the hedonistic calculus.

You seem to have assumed that an attitude of absence of pre-expectations is like an absence of preparation for likely yet not specifically predictable occurrence, when it is quite distinct from any such silly notion.

One doesn't need to expect a tornado from any given forecast of potential future thunderstorm to have a shelter and safety plan in place. Such expectations that lead to anxiety may lead to not enjoying any lightening or similar shows that come with such territory. I personally like the sound of hard rain on the metal roof of my shed.