Something possibly missing from the list, is breadth of first-hand experience amidst other cultures. Getting older and meeting people and really getting to know them in such a short lifespan is really, really hard!
And I don’t just mean meeting people in the places we already live. Getting out of our towns and countries and living in their worlds? Yeah you can’t really do that. Sure, you might be able to move to <Spain> or <the Phillippines> for a couple years, but then you come home.
It’s not just death here, but the breadth of experiences we can even have is limited, so our understanding of others, the problems they face, and thus the solutions we can come up with, often wind up with terrible failures.
Left as comment, rather than answer because it feels tangential.
Something possibly missing from the list, is breadth of first-hand experience amidst other cultures. Getting older and meeting people and really getting to know them in such a short lifespan is really, really hard!
And I don’t just mean meeting people in the places we already live. Getting out of our towns and countries and living in their worlds? Yeah you can’t really do that. Sure, you might be able to move to <Spain> or <the Phillippines> for a couple years, but then you come home.
It’s not just death here, but the breadth of experiences we can even have is limited, so our understanding of others, the problems they face, and thus the solutions we can come up with, often wind up with terrible failures.
Left as comment, rather than answer because it feels tangential.