That's a tough one.
I mean we are all going to die.
Who knows when.
Putting in the heartbeat context, I would say that I would still live life to enjoy it.
Sure you could extend your life by keeping your heart rate as low as possible, but what fun would that be?
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If I had X number of heartbeats left, I think I'd want to find a way the minimize the number of heartbeats I expended per day/hour. I'd have to start looking for a pool to get back in shape; my resting pulse stayed in the low fifties when I managed to swim at least 12 km a week.
Get into shape, lower my overall stress (I'd have to quit my job, change my identity so my ex couldn't find me and avoid the news altogether), and only do stuff I like to do.
Well then. Except for children under six and the extremely old, that hardly ever happens.
Screw it. I'm going to keep drinking a bit too much beer, spending too much time on the computer and watching TV when I'm not working. I'll hit the pool again when I retire (ha!).
cheers
horseback
This is an easy question....
After the first 30 years of my life being lost I to this day since live life absolutly to its fullest. Having eliminated all shame, most of my fears and limitations, I vowed to live the balance of my life at 110%, how I like and how I am and want to be and refusing to let any force save God stop me.
Now that does not mean "burning out"....There is a lot to be said for a nap on a bed of moss under a shade tree, a quiet walk, or a nice hot soak in a tub. In kind it doesn't mean having to eat the wrong things or too much of, drink or do drugs to excess, they actually hindering the fun, a sprig of Asparagus tasting better then a candy bar, and a clear head lets you take it all in......Moderation the true trick to living fully.
Think about it...If you go out, slam down drinks till you drop, then the rest of that night is lost, most likely the next day, and lord knows how many after as you just don't feel 100%....Yet I can have the same fun, and then all that the other misses day in and day out never needing a breather.....Who won?
Though aspects of my life are most likely more tame then other folks, other aspects considerably more extreme......In the end it all balances out....Yet I enjoy all life has to offer to the maximum.
Count down the minutes till extinction?....Pffftt...That just means you're already dead. In kind living in the "Fast lane", better to burn out then fade away costs you as equally in enjoying the fullness of it all.
So I'll do neither, and live fully to the maximum no matter how slow and easy that moment or hard and fast......and can tell you by doing so the last 15 have made up ten fold for the first 30, and added on enough more that if I went this moment I'd say...
What a great life!
K2