Time, Decisions, and a Sense of Scale

I don't remember what the book was about, or who wrote it, but one chapter included a simple timeline and this bit of advice --

'Before you do something bad, consider this: How long do you plan to be dead?'

I'm pretty sure the author was making the usual carpe diem argument, but I took the point differently.

Here's my version of that timeline:



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