Two years ago, David Crosby offered advice on how to live as we get older

[highplainsdem]

David offered the advice via Rolling Stone, as their advice columnist. Quotes and the YouTube video below.

First, thanks to Open Culture on Mastodon for posting about it this evening at https://masto.ai/@[e-mail]/109736455770771518 - quoting only part of what Croz had said, but that was enough to let me find the rest, starting with this article from Far Out magazine a couple of days ago:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/david-crosby-poignant-advice-to-people-fearing-death/

At this moment, the question feels more pertinent than ever. “David, I’m roughly your age, and I’ve survived a few major medical scares, but they’ve left deep scars, and I really feel like my clock is ticking. Death is on my mind all the time, and I find it hard to enjoy life. You don’t seem to have that problem. How can us old people enjoy the time we have left, especially in the era of Covid when it’s near-impossible to leave our homes,” a fan asked Crosby.

“OK, this one’s fairly simple,” Crosby started. “You have a certain amount of time. You don’t know how much. Maybe I’ve got two weeks; maybe I’ve got two years – maybe I got 20 years! The question is not how much time you have, the question is what are you gonna do with that time. It seems to me that if you spend that time agonising over the fact that you’re gonna die, you’re wasting that time.”

Crosby added: “If you spend that time doing everything you can to be happy, to help other people, to create, to make new things – to make anything better for anybody – if you spend your time doing positive stuff like that, then the time that you have left – whatever amount it is – will be well-spent. And that, I think, is the key.”

Crosby summarised his feelings by saying: “If you try that really hard – try to stay positive and try to think about today and the fact that you may die tomorrow, but you’ve got today, so why don’t you use the heck out of today? That’s a good idea. That’s how I see it.”

Great advice. For anyone, at any age.

Rolling Stone's video below, with what Croz said above starting at 4:08. The RS article is here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/david-crosby-ask-croz-biden-1116889/

[sheshe2]

1. Sage advice from David Crosby.

Rest in music.

[highplainsdem]

8. Very. I'm glad I ran across this.

[Skittles]

2. he nails it

don't waste time worrying about the inevitable - make that time worthwhile!

[highplainsdem]

7. Exactly.

[3catwoman3]

3. Despite all his difficulties and setbacks, he left the world a better...

...place than he found it through his music and his hard-won wisdom. Thank you, David.

[Deuxcents]

4. Yes and he left us his music to celebrate his time with it us 🕊️

[highplainsdem]

10. And that music is a treasure.

[highplainsdem]

9. True.

[Lucinda]

5. He was pretty active on twitter too.

Always interesting to talk with
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[vlyons]

6. Yes great advice

I aspire to become a completely and perfectly enlightened Buddha for the benefit of all sentient beings.