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content/blog/2024-12-22-finite.md

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+---
+title: Finite
+date: 2024-12-22T10:54:17-05:00
+permalink: /finite/
+tags:
+  - reading
+---
+> You have to accept that there will always be too much to do; that you can’t avoid tough choices or make the world run at your preferred speed; that no experience, least of all close relationships with other human beings, can ever be guaranteed in advance to turn out painlessly and well—and that from a cosmic viewpoint, when it’s all over, it won’t have counted for very much anyway.
+> 
+> And in exchange for accepting all that? You get to actually *be* here. You get to have some real purchase on life. You get to spend your finite time focused on a few things that matter to you, in themselves, right now, in this moment.
+
+— Oliver Burkeman, *Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals*