About time!

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This is all I'm saying: don't skip all the fun now by saving for the future.  And, happily, someone at Wired agrees with me.

The word for this is hyperopia: an excess of farsightedness. In a 2006 study, Kivetz asked respondents to think about a moment from the previous week when they had to choose between work and pleasure; then he asked them to rate how much they regretted their decision. The amount that people regretted either working or relaxing was pretty much equal. But then he asked a second group to think about a similar moment from five years earlier. This time, people's regret over working was more than double the regret over playing.


Who knows what's going to happen in the future ... I'm don't want to put all my eggs in the future basket when I may be to sore and crotchety to want to do anything then. 

Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die.  Hedonism rawks!

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