“these findings tell a story in which the age U-shape in job (and overall life) satisfaction is driven by unmet aspirations that are painfully felt in midlife, but beneficially abandoned and felt with less regret during old age.”30 The key to happiness, then, is managing one’s expectations. (This seems like the right time to warn you that you are r

The common feeling that your life hasn't begun, that your present reality is a mere prelude to some idyllic future. This idyll is a mirage that'll fade as you approach, revealing that the prelude you rushed through was in fact the one to your death.

In short, what sparkled with the thrill of the new in the mall’s slanted light quickly becomes flat and dull. It’s not working anymore. And yet: to whom else shall we go? So when can we go again?

If life is deprived of any possibility of closure, it will end in non-time. Because it rushes from one sensation to the next, even perception is now incapable of closure. Only contemplative lingering is capable of closure. The closure of the eyes is emblematic of contemplative closure. The flood of images and information makes closure of the eyes i