I went through a period like this, not long after 9/11 and the Anthrax scare.
I went through a period like this, not long after 9/11 and the Anthrax scare. It eventually just went away with time. Then I had a heart-attack last Nov, and could easily have died. Now, anytime I feel even the slightest niggle of chest pain or discomfort, it's hard not to think about the possibility of dying. It's frustrating, but mostly the way I deal with it is two-fold: 1. I remind myself that it doesn't really matter. Once I'm dead, I won't be in a position to care about being dead. Of course, I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in any sort of "after life", so I look at dying as just going to sleep - for a REALLY long time. 2. I remind myself that I'm fairly content with the life I've lived up to this point. I am not in any hurry to die and I have unfulfilled dreams still, yeah, but I also recognize that I've done a lot of what I want to do, and I've done things on my own terms as much as I possibly could. I've done some things I'm not proud of, and haven't been perfect, but I feel like "when I die, I have no real regrets, nothing to feel bad about". Anyway, I guess many (most?) people go through a period of dwelling on their mortality. If you're lucky, it'll probably pass in time. I don't know why I am so fixated on it at this age. Maybe a family member of friend died? Or you saw a TV news report about some kind of tragedy involving many deaths? Some kind of stimulus like that could potentially have prompted the whole thing. For me it really was the 9/11 attacks and all the reporting about the Anthrax scare immediately afterwards.
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I've always believed the opposite: get conditionals deep in your code so that the higher level control flow is regular.
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I am a 3D printing maker type nerd (I make my own tools for other creative tasks, rather than as their own outcomes) and I saw an incredi...
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I went through a period like this, not long after 9/11 and the Anthrax scare.
I went through a period like this, not long after 9/11 and the Anthrax scare. It eventually just went away with time. Then I had a heart-attack last Nov, and could easily have died. Now, anytime I feel even the slightest niggle of chest pain or discomfort, it's hard not to think about the possibility of dying. It's frustrating, but mostly the way I deal with it is two-fold: 1. I remind myself that it doesn't really matter. Once I'm dead, I won't be in a position to care about being dead. Of course, I'm an atheist who doesn't believe in any sort of "after life", so I look at dying as just going to sleep - for a REALLY long time. 2. I remind myself that I'm fairly content with the life I've lived up to this point. I am not in any hurry to die and I have unfulfilled dreams still, yeah, but I also recognize that I've done a lot of what I want to do, and I've done things on my own terms as much as I possibly could. I've done some things I'm not proud of, and haven't been perfect, but I feel like "when I die, I have no real regrets, nothing to feel bad about". Anyway, I guess many (most?) people go through a period of dwelling on their mortality. If you're lucky, it'll probably pass in time. I don't know why I am so fixated on it at this age. Maybe a family member of friend died? Or you saw a TV news report about some kind of tragedy involving many deaths? Some kind of stimulus like that could potentially have prompted the whole thing. For me it really was the 9/11 attacks and all the reporting about the Anthrax scare immediately afterwards.
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