It's funny... this idea really resonates with me, and has since I was a little kid. Why? Because my mom is both a voracious reader and has a huge book collection and she came to this same realization at some point when I was a kid. The way she put it was "I already own more books than I'll ever be able to read, so what's the point in buying more books? But yet I do." That struck me as very profound and somewhat troubling.
Fast forward 40 years or so and I have been having the same thought here and there lately. I definitely already own more books than I'll ever be able to finish, barring some radical breakthrough in life-extension technology or something. And yet I still feel compelled to buy more books. And the thought of not being able to read them all definitely depresses me. :-(
So, yeah... let's just say I'm rooting for the life-extension researchers.
Hey, author of the post here. Thanks for your story and I appreciate you commenting.
It feels a little rediculous to be sad about missing out on books with all the things going on in the world right now, but to me it's like a proxy thought for considering my own mortality.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 15.4 ms ] threadFast forward 40 years or so and I have been having the same thought here and there lately. I definitely already own more books than I'll ever be able to finish, barring some radical breakthrough in life-extension technology or something. And yet I still feel compelled to buy more books. And the thought of not being able to read them all definitely depresses me. :-(
So, yeah... let's just say I'm rooting for the life-extension researchers.
It feels a little rediculous to be sad about missing out on books with all the things going on in the world right now, but to me it's like a proxy thought for considering my own mortality.