Most middle-aged people, although they’re alive, often hear themselves complaining that time passes too fast. Before New Year’s is even over, it’s already May. And after a while, it’s New Year again—and another year older.

But do you ever rarely hear children say, “My age is growing too fast”? Why? Because the days children live are what we truly call “living,” while most middle-aged people are, in fact, just like they’re dead.

Where’s the difference? It’s that, after most middle-aged people have “finished the big events of their lives,” their living environment and behavior patterns become fixed. Whether you live 10 years or 1 day, the difference isn’t that big. After 10 years, looking back, your experiences have been compressed, with no standout memory anchor points—so you feel like you only lived a day. How did 10 years go by?

There are always some “ancient teachings” that tell people, “Stability is a blessing, peace is a blessing, and plainness is a blessing.” But stability and peace only mean that you can obtain survival supplies through fixed routines—this is an idea from an era when resources were scarce. Yet it shouldn’t be the main storyline of modern society. Its biggest problem is that if we spend all our time on these routines, then life itself has already disappeared.

Contrary to what many people think, life is not something that can be objectively measured by a third party. We use something with fixed marks—called “time”—to count people’s lifespan lengths uniformly. But in reality, time is not something that naturally exists. It’s a concept created by humans for the sake of easier communication.

What life is truly worth counting is each person’s own felt experience—those different parts that each individual can pay attention to and can experience. For example, if a person sleeps for 100 years, have they lived for 100 years? From a third-party perspective, yes. But what meaning does society’s counting of that time have for them? If you haven’t noticed it, then for you it doesn’t exist; if you haven’t deeply experienced it—forming those very unique memory anchor points of yours—then that stretch is almost like a wasted life. Most people’s actual lifespan is much shorter than they imagine.

This world has countless pieces of information, and countless changes. But the only information your life can truly capture is what enters your brain and has been processed deeply by you. Only those make up the parts of your life. And as long as you shut off your “capturer,” as long as you haven’t seriously processed the information, then it won’t be part of your life—no matter how urgently and breathlessly it happens right in front of you. To you, it makes no difference from dead silence.

One more reminder: only the parts you can perceive are your life. Increasing the number of memory anchor points that produce intense perception is what increases the density of your life.

Living a long time isn’t all that matters—you just need longevity; living the whole way without any “urine-free” moments also counts.
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