Running Out of Time

Advice, Autobiography, Death, Hamilton, Kieran Setiya, Memory, Mom, Time, Work, , , , , , , ,

Following a December blog-conversation about Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal (occasioned in part by her own chemo), my friend Alison Piepmeier asked me to send her a contribution to her blog, Every Little Thing. It appeared there on Monday. I’m reposting it here now. In case you’re wondering, I got permission from the close relative (named below)

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Kieran Setiya, "The Midlife Crisis" (2014)

The Meaning of Life; or, How to Avoid the Midlife Crisis

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Why do successes sometimes feel like failures? As philosopher Kieran Setiya points out in a wise new essay, “Our achievements, whatever they are worth, are always numbered” (10). Each time we accomplish something, it’s done, finished, and we must move on to the next thing: “the completion of your project may constitute something of value,

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