A friend from the LDS church was telling me - more than 10 years ago something that somehow stuck on me.
friend: Do you know what is the most important decision of your life?
me: What? who I marry? (knowing the LDS view on eternal marriage)
friend: No, thats important of course but its not the most important
me: Can you give me a hint?
friend: What is the most important, precious thing that you have
me: (I guess he doesn't mean my family... would it be my education? not precious.. would it be my memories...) I give up.
friend: Your time. The time that you were given is the most precious asset of yours. What you will do with the time that you were given is the most important decision in your life.
10 years later I was talking with a close friend that had also discovered (independently from the chuch in spite of his own lds roots) that answer. He was in a conundrum : if it was the most important decision in his life - he should be spending most of his time figuring the optimum answer - which was throwing him into a recursive loop of trying to understand his meta-existence.
Today I read that another person Aaron Swartz, had a similar fascination
- and I am trying to understand what is the common pattern here.
friend: Do you know what is the most important decision of your life?
me: What? who I marry? (knowing the LDS view on eternal marriage)
friend: No, thats important of course but its not the most important
me: Can you give me a hint?
friend: What is the most important, precious thing that you have
me: (I guess he doesn't mean my family... would it be my education? not precious.. would it be my memories...) I give up.
friend: Your time. The time that you were given is the most precious asset of yours. What you will do with the time that you were given is the most important decision in your life.
10 years later I was talking with a close friend that had also discovered (independently from the chuch in spite of his own lds roots) that answer. He was in a conundrum : if it was the most important decision in his life - he should be spending most of his time figuring the optimum answer - which was throwing him into a recursive loop of trying to understand his meta-existence.
Today I read that another person Aaron Swartz, had a similar fascination
- and I am trying to understand what is the common pattern here.
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