Man is often his own worst enemy. Why? Because he consumes the greatest resource given to him by God. He wastes minutes of his life on banal, irrelevant and unimportant activities...
47 years... Just as old as I am.
Pity.
I remembered now the saying of my former, older colleague.
Whenever we talked about ages, who is how old, he would say: "It doesn't matter how old you are, but how many years you have left".
Since you don't know how long it is, whether it's this evening, the next day, the next month, the next year, a decade or another half a century, every day when you wake up, accept the day gifted by God and live it filled with beautiful and important things.
A few years ago, I realized what was a "waster" of my time and removed it from my life. "Funny clips" from YouTube channels, which were posted by thousands of authors, consumed a lot of my time.
I logged out of the account and invested some of the time in reading and writing posts, which I share with you here. I get to know your thoughts, I get to know new locations, new cultures and customs, I enjoy the beauty of the landscapes you paint... and I share some of my thoughts and life events with you.
Much better time spent than on funny clips from the YouTube channel.
I agree with the live each day ethos you mention as it leaves less chance of there being regrets later on; of course, we can only act in the moment commensurate to who and what we are and know at the time...so years later it's possible that regrets will form when looking backwards on years earlier.
I like your logged off strategy. Sure it can be entertaining looking at those videos but there could well be better ways to spend time, as you have clearly discovered. Well done.