Is life too short?

6 hours a day, maybe 2 hours of homework to make this a bit easier of a conversion - that's 1/3 of the day. Based on a life of 78 years, 1/6 of this life is based to schooling up to high school. 1/3 x 1/6 is 1/18 of your life devoted to basic education (5.6% for those who prefer that form.) Based on a life of 65 years, 1/15 or 6.7% are the magic values. Of course these are rough estimates, as there's the weekends and summer vacation to consider (a school year for a young student is actually approximately 1/2 a year without counting the vacation/weekend days.) With such a knock in time there, this value probably includes college/university time as well - but I'm trying to keep this basic for you all to see.

So look, it's clearly not that life is too short for tests - it's the organization that makes it seem so. If you plan well, you can more effectively do what you wish: i.e. doing your homework on the bus ride home rather than just sitting there staring out the window or talking to your buddies. That way you've just optimized your time and left the day open for more significant plans.
 
I wondered about this question when I first read it on April 12. My answer was "yes"...without really knowing why it was indeed short. I just thought "yes" was the appropriate answer because many people seem to think so anyway.

The other day, I received news that my friend back from California was literally dying. He's barely 18 years old, but he's diabetic ever since he was young, and found out recently that his "horseshoe" kidney and pancreas were basically dead, and his liver is only .3% functional, which is also basically dead. He has not slept for five days straight for fear of dying in his sleep. He's worried that he won't make it in a week...because the doctor told him it's pretty much a loss cause since transplant is out of the question, although they wanted to try something with stem cell research, but I don't know what's up with that yet.

Now, when I heard that news, this question popped up in my head again. "Is life too short?" Yes, and I know the reason why now. Life is too short because we can never spend enough time with our loved ones. We miss a big part of their lives sometimes and wish we didn't, but there's really nothing we can do about it because life tosses us a bunch of other things that occupies most of our time.

Now, we're going back to California in June for a visit, and I told my friend that he better be there because we want to see him. He's pretty much giving up in life. His attitude was, "What's the point? I'm gonna die anyway." He doesn't wanna go through dialysis or blood transfusion...I know his chances are slim, but when there's hope, there's a way. Life is way too short to pass up the chances to live.

In the end, we managed to get through him and he promised us he'll try to do whatever it takes to live. Now I hope that life would not be so cruel and hopefully prove to others, to my friend, and to myself...that life CAN be lived longer...
 
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Leki said:
And I do agree on the school stuff, that waaaaaaay to much time is spent on education. Half the time I see adults who don't use or even remember half the stuff they learned in school.
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There is a show on TV (in the U.S. at least) called "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" where grown adults answer questions that are made for children in first to fifth grade (you would be about 10 in fifth grade in the U.S.). Not only are some of these adults very successful in life, a lot of them scored very well during their schooling. Yet, when it comes to these questions, few are able to answer as many as 5 questions correctly in a row.

This just proves the idea that we constantly hear teachers put down; "When are we ever going to need to know this?" The way I see it, the answer is: only if you happen to be on a TV game show.
 
Oh...hmm, well if we're talking about school-related, then...I don't know. Let me see. 15 years of education, huh? I say it's all worth it. Life is too short in general, yes, but education is mandatory anyway. I know college life is stressful, but never think that it shouldn't be explored just because you think life is too short.

I believe that education is part of life. Our academic strengths and weaknesses are shown, and based on that, we learn how to shape our very own being and characteristics. We then apply it to our daily life.

For instance, someone who's interested in science can venture on with the program in college. In the end, they can make that as their career, and it would be up to them whether to view it as life being too short for education. Perhaps if they fail, then yeah, they might view it as that. However, a success usually means that life is just right. Not too long, not too short.
 
Life seems too short not to do something that you've wanted to do. Like scuba-diving, if you have wanted to do that for a while, don't think for years about it, you go out and do it!
 
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