The life triangle

Over the past few years, I spent way more time than I probably should have thinking about my life. And the way I usually look at it is by asking two fundamental questions. The first question is “do I want to have a life?”. You might think this is a silly question to even ask, but since I was a teen I’ve always had a weird relationship with the concept of death, and as a result of that, the whole idea of being alive at all has never been an absolute certainty. Which is why I periodically ask myself the question, and so far the answer has clearly always been yes, and that is why I’m still here. Figuring out an answer to this question is often pretty straightforward, and the answer is binary, so there’s no point in discussing it further. The second, and more interesting, question I ask myself is “what kind of life do I want to live?”. Finding an answer to this one is a lot trickier. But one framework I’ve been using lately is to visualise my life as a triangle. I’ll explain what I mean,…