Cyclokairos

 4000. Fewer then 1,500 left then. 

What to do? 

Oliver Burkemann argues the amount you do isn’t important but rather the quality of what you do. The same ethos as Jenny Odell’s choice of kairos over kronos. A jam packed to-do-list is never completed, it just refills, as one task is done another is added. In recognising the finitude of life, the trick is to choose what not to do. How to judge what is worthy? Whatever I choose, it doesn’t matter. The universe rumbles on, untroubled by my fleeting presence as a minuscule bag of chemicals on a tiny fragment rock. Cosmic insignificance therapy – ultimately my choice is of no consequence. Choose pleasure, choose idleness, live now, ignore the obsession with future-focussed self-improvement. Being mortal, it is absurd to live solely for the future. Ignore the pressure from without to get things done yesterday – allow things to take the time they take. Eigenzeit – the time inherent in a task. Derive satisfaction from the very doing of the task right now, doing it for its own sake, not what it may bring tomorrow, next week, next year. If fulfilment is always delayed to the future, it will never come.

What to do?

I rode a bike.