I have a similar page that generates my life in weeks: https://diary.geekodour.org/
It's a hugo site with the dates linking to hugo posts. I agree with the first comment, this definitely gets depressing at times but guess it is what it is :)
Basically it's very badly written elisp code that populates the same org file with metadata like week number etc. and then I have a custom hugo layout for writing out the weeks into posts.
Is it something you remember frequently? Did you make any decisions keeping that in mind? Would you say it had a positive impact in your life, and gave it more meaning? Or would you rather not have been given that awareness?
I find it a great metaphor, and I'm planning to tell my kid about it
‘In his foreword to the 1967 edition of the book, C. P. Snow describes the Apology as "a passionate lament for creative powers that used to be and that will never come again".’
Well it is obvious that the father does this when his son is a 20 yo. And it is obvious that this is a clever hint. My point is why not to do this when his son is 10 yo?
Probably because the father was only just 30 when his son had turned 10 and hadn't realised yet that he had already lost 3 stones.
That said I feel I still have plenty to share with my children and now grand children - each day is a gift and each one will have mundane tasks, challenges and triumphs that all need to be dealt with accordingly.
Maybe at ten the child would be able to understand the words, but do you really learn the lesson when they have not yet spent a decade of being a teenager that is now over?
I didn't gather that from the comment, and tend to agree with the other reply. 20 is probably the earliest that someone would grasp an idea like that, and maybe >40 would be a good time to have realized it yourself.
At age 10 you're still truly a child, you don't know shit about shit. Age 20, you still probably don't know shit about shit, but you might
My dad gave me seven stones once. He said each is a decade of time you have. Then took two away, and threw them. He said use the rest as you can.