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Why You Should Add Entropy to Your Life
Life is short without entropy. But with it, life will feel much longer.
Do you remember how summers felt eternal when you were a child? How the wait for the winter holidays was endless? How the months went by much slower?
Now everything just zips by. It’s like someone went to life’s settings and set the playback speed to 2x. You look at the calendar and realize “Damn, summer is over and it’s almost New Year’s again! At this pace I’ll be old and frail in no time! If only there was a way to experience life at a child’s pace again!’’
Well, there is. You can slow life down and set its speed back to 1x. The trick is to add entropy to your life.
Let me explain.
If you take your backpack now, stuff it with some shorts, shirts, toiletry essentials, a towel, and not much more, and then take a one-way flight to Southeast Asia and stay there for a year, traveling from place to place, that year will feel like a whole lifetime to you. In your memory, it will stretch to the same length as ten years being stuck in a daily repetitive grind.
The year will feel long because you will have left behind a predictable life. You will no longer have any routines. You will stop copy and pasting your days. You will no longer live…
