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		ekianjo on Dec 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife ... > At the end if you are an unhappy person it will not be enough, and if you are naturally content it will all seem ok. Yeah, regression to the baseline (happiness). Which is why trying to change your own life based on other people's dying regrets is utter stupidity.

leetcrew on Dec 17, 2020 [–]

for sure. it's easy to say "I wish I'd done X" when all the effort required for X would already be in the past.

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