Really, how "YOUNG/OLD" are we?

My dad called me during his lunch break yesterday

and,

In one of the conversations we had, he mentioned how we only get to live 1/2 of the time we think we have lived at the end (generally speaking of course). His logic was basically that we all have 24 hours a day and if we were to spend more or less 8 hours on sleeping and another 4 on some essential misc stuff such as eating, walking etc. there's really not much time left for us to be productive or work for our dreams - at most another 12 hours. To sum up, this is exactly what he was saying: if we were to die at at age of 80, we are only really living 40 years of our life-time.

Now, do I agree with him? Yes and no. I found some logic in that however, I also enjoy my time of eating, showering, walking, running errands (I love the word, "errands") and etc. that my dad categorized under misc. Sure, they are truly essential part of our life (now, don't try to argue that we don't HAVE TO shower, eat nor etc. we are only "generally speaking", remember?), but they are also joyful, aren't they?

I genuinely have loads of fun making a list for my weekly grocery shopping day as I get to look around all these different things, compare and choose what I want to buy at the store - definitely exciting.

In the shower, I think about "what kind of body-wash do I want to use today amongst these 3 I own?", basically a question of how do I want my day to be? fruity? flowery? or maybe something else? or what kind of music do I want to hear in the shower and etc.?

Eating? God forbid, I enjoy eating and in order to appreciate the taste of my food better, I don't really drink water while I am eating. Really, I can go on and on about how I find every "mundane/routine-based" parts of my day still really exciting and enjoyable and they can also get productive - they make me happy and that happy vibe keeps me motivated when it comes to carrying out other tasks during my "non-misc" time!

I am fully aware of the fact that it's totally fine to have a different view on this but didn't want to tell this to my dad. He is a very hard-working man and I look up to him very much. I know I wouldn't have been here being "able" to enjoy my "misc. time" without him and his not-so- meaningful/enjoyable misc. hours. In this sense, he's already given me a better life than what he's had and how can I not love my daddy and look up to him?!!!

Anyway, back to the point and my conclusion here is that instead of 1/2, I would say we really do live 2/3 of our life time being fully awake! (also, "1/2 theory" of my dad is kind of sad, if you think about it...) Sleeping is also essential and very enjoyable part of our life but unfortunately, we are not exactly awake with a very active mind. So yeah, If I die at the age of 90, I would have lived 60 years, really...

So how young/old are we, really? Could I say...well my "sleeping+non-sleeping" age together is (say 30 as an example), and my "active" age is 20 actually?...

What it all boils down to is that... we tend to think we have the whole life ahead of us to do this and that and put things off but really, how do you know when your privilege of even being able to count your age in these two different schemes might stop? If what my dad wanted tell me with his "1/2 theory" was that we all should be more productive, diligent and proactive, what I want to say is that, on top of that, we need to learn how to enjoy every single moment of our life better.

Well here's my thought. For starters, there's not enough time to "love" - love yourself, friends, family, lovers, phone, shampoo, candles, waffles, "coco berry's", Beethoven Sonata, your misc. time, errands...anything and everything that are part of you and your life...xxx