Your Most Cherished Possession is Also Your Silent Assassin
We are living far longer, but way more miserable lives
We’ve more than doubled the world’s average life expectancy in a span of a mere century. From around the early 30s in the year 1900, we’ve gone to well over 70 as the world’s average life expectancy. Yet, a mental health crisis of epic proportions might be upon us. But each of us can take matters into our own hands and avert the danger. Here’s how.
My grandpa recently passed away. He was 91 years old. He was born in the year 1932 in India when he was probably expected to live to the ripe old age of 35. He managed to nearly triple that.
Even when he died earlier this year, he barely knew how to use a smartphone, and definitely not a computer.
He’d walked five kilometers one way to his school and back from the age of five.
He was born with a set of eyes that were genetically weak and wore glasses with a power of ~10 since childhood. His mother died when he was 6. He survived multiple wars around the world and in India, and the India-Pakistan partition when he along with his family moved from Lahore in Pakistan to somewhere in the Indian part of Panjab.
