For the past month or so
I've been thinking a lot about life
And when people say that they usually mean what they want to do in life
Whether that be their career
Or relationships
Or entertainment or leisure?
But I've been thinking differently. Of course I've been thinking about those things
But I've also been thinking about how much of your life is really yours
How much of your life is really being lived to its full potential?
Are you living?
Or are you just existing?
On average you're gonna get about 79 years on this big rock called earth
If you live at Monaco, it's closer to 90. If you live in Chad, you'll be lucky to get 50
Regardless, we don't get 79 years of freedom. We have responsibilities and things that we can't ignore
Most importantly our bodies.
Assuming you sleep 8 hours a night on average about a third of your life over 26 years is gonna be spent sleeping.
So right away, we're down from 79
To 53 but it doesn't stop there.
Chances are if you're watching this video you're going to or have gone to school.
In the United States
You'll go for at least 12 years
8 hours a day 5 days a week for 36 weeks a year.
This amounts to 17,280 hours spent just inside the school building
But wait, we also have to factor in homework and out-of-school activities
Among other things.
So this is more like
22,000 to 25,000 hours or about 3 years of your life.
If you go to college or university
Afterwards make it 5 years instead
We're down to 48 years.
Well all this schooling and money you've spent getting a degree has to be put to some use right?
Chances are you'll try and get a job in the field of whatever it is your degree is in,
It'll probably be a full-time job. So you'll be working 40 hour weeks pretty regularly if not more than that
Let's say you get two weeks of vacation per year. The average person works for about 40 to 50 years of their life
So we'll just go with the average and say 45.
Over your entire life you'll work on average about 90,000 hours or about 10 years of your life. We have 38 years left
Wait, depending on where you live your commute to work will vary, you might drive yourself
You might walk you might use an Uber or a taxi.
Regardless your commute to and from work on average takes about one and a half hours a day.
Adding this up over your entire working career. It amounts to 17,500 to 20 hours or about two years of your life.
36 years left.
All of this work and studying really builds up an appetite. So you should probably spend some time eating.
On an average day we spend about 70 minutes just eating food to survive.
In your 79 years of life you'll spend about 32,000 hours just eating or about 4 years of your life.
Down to 32.
Well after you're done eating you have to clean up and maybe do some chores around the house.
On average you spend about one hour a day doing tasks just around your house
Cleaning up after you eat washing dishes, doing laundry, showering and plenty of other stuff
This amounts to nearly 29,000 hours over the course of your life or about three years.
29 years left.
Eventually, all of that food and water has to leave your body somehow
You'll spend about three months of your life just sitting on the toilet.
yeah :|
Of course, we also waste time and we do it pretty well.
Over the course of our lifetimes we'll spend about 115,000 hours on our phones or about 13 years.
This of course is just your phone. This doesn't include you watching TV, you playing games among other things.
16 years left.
Assuming you can afford to retire at the average age of 62
You'll spend the rest of your life living the luxuries of retirement
If you can still function properly.
Over 50% of retired people over the age of 65 have some sort of disability
With 15% of those people having three or more
Chances are if you are one of these people you'll be in and out of medical care pretty often.
So those final 16 years of freedom you have
It's a coin flip. That doesn't exactly entail freedom
So overall you have one year in your 79 year life to really and truly do what you want to do
But despite the age you might be young or old
You may be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life.
For example while you're young and in school from the ages of 1 to 18
You'll most likely be spending nearly every day in the presence of your parents
After you finish your schooling assuming your parents are in their mid 40s will say they have about 30 years left in their life.
The real world starts to set in. Your job, you're possible relationships, you're important things to do in life take priority.
Eventually, if you leave your hometown, you'll only be seeing your parents around holidays and special occasions. Maybe 10 days a year.
so
300 days left with the people who brought you into the world, where as before you would see them almost every single day.
You have already spent
95% of the time that you will ever spend with your parents in the first 18 years of your life.
And now you only have the remaining 5% for the rest of your life.
At the end of the day there's only one thing that matters and that's your own happiness.
Well many people don't realise is that they do so many things in life just to try and succeed as opposed to fulfilling a purpose.
They work a job they hate for 40 years just to make that extra
$30,000 a year so they can afford a car that they only drive to work.
It's temporary happiness not genuine happiness.
People who are school to become a doctor because their mom or their dad or somebody else told them to
not because they actually want to.
I really hope that every single person watching this video gets insanely rich and famous so that they could finally realise that this isn't the point of life.
The point is to be happy with what you're doing while you're doing it.
Alright sure the 45 working years or however long you're working is going to be hard to get past
But what if you don't hate waking up every day to go to work? What if your work is your happiness?
You see life isn't a straight path. You can't map it out perfectly one-to-one. It just doesn't work like that.
We spend every day planning on what we're going to do the next instead of just taking in the day for what it actually is
Sure, we have to eat, duh
But what if we spend that time eating with friends or family or just people who make your life better?
your commute to work might be long and tedious sometimes but what if you spend that time listening to podcasts or
carpooling with coworkers and friends
The 13 years we waste on our phones might seem useless
but what if we use that time to build the business you've always wanted to or build the brand you've always wanted or make a
youtube channel to talk to people about the random ideas you get
You'll bring so much value to people that you never even thought was possible
Let's say you take care of yourself and regularly work out and eat decently well
Your chances of being healthy later in life is much more
likely and you'll have much more free time to master the things that you really want whether that be a skill or just
relationships with others
No matter what you or I or any person on this planet does time doesn't stop for anyone
Time is the one thing you cannot get back if you lose a lot of money, it's fine
You can get more. If your friend decides to turn their back on you. It's fine
There's millions of people out there in the same situation.
But time you can't get it back once it's gone. It's gone.
How many days have you spent doing the same mundane tasks that you hate and more importantly when is it going to end?
Life is about choices every choice
you've ever made has led you to this exact moment watching this video and
Given that you only have one life at least in this universe
Why not make your own decisions?
So many people live life predicated on somebody else's opinion, which is dumb
People have so many barriers in life, but they aren't really about money. They aren't about time
They aren't about how you look it's about opinions.
Other people's opinions.
Probably about 90% of people are unhappy because they value someone else's opinion more than their own
When you're old and unable to do the things that you could have when you're younger
You'll regret and regret hurts more than any breakup failure or anything else ever could
Life doesn't have to suck you don't have to regret everything
That FOMO or fear of missing out is a poison
Instead of living trying to mimic people you see on Instagram or YouTube or social media just live based on your own terms.
Instead of just observing and living passively really start to think about what you do with your time
Does that mean call your boss and tell him you quit? No, does that mean drop out of school tomorrow? No
All it means is to truly decide what you want in life and put yourself in the right direction.
It's not gonna happen overnight. That's not the point. There would be no journey then.
As cliche as it sounds your 79 year journey here is very short.
Sure. It's technically the longest thing you'll ever do
But the universe is 13.8 billion years old.
If the universe's history was condensed down into 24 hours the world as we know it with cars and airplanes and
Civilisation as we know it would only come into existence in the very last second.
Block out any and all negativity in your life. And once you can truly realize that the only opinion that matters is your own
Life can get pretty clear, and the noises inside your head
Get pretty quiet.