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Many people have voiced the sentiment “Life is short”. I posit that life is too long.

If you don’t believe me, try staying awake through the whole thing. Really. Give it a week and you’ll be ready to die.

We only get through life because we break it down into smaller units and work our way through them. “One day at a time”.

I suggest that every time you go to sleep it marks the end of your life and that upon waking you’re starting a new one (reincarnation?).The device that links these separate lives into one continuous life is what I call “the underlying social contract”.

The underlying social contract states simply that you agree to be the same person today that you were yesterday. Think about it. Every day you continue to maintain your personal relationships and routines. Sure they alter over time but there is no “break”. And if there is a break then we assume that the person has undergone some kind of emotional or psychological trauma. In fact it is this repetition of behavior that makes life seem short.

Consider this. You drive somewhere for the first time. The route is new, the sites and landmarks are new. The trip seems to take a longer time because everything is different.Now imagine that this is your new commute. You’re driving there and back every day, month after month. You start to do it automatically. You view the route in short hand. It feels shorter and shorter.

The same thing happens in your life. As you look back over months or years of routine it doesn’t look that long. It’s been foreshortened.

Now imagine that you had spent the last few months walking to Argentina. Your memories would be so full of new experience and you would have gone through so many changes and adaptations that it would seem like forever.

The moral of all this is that life is as short as you make it.