# The Tail End - Wait But Why - end meta Synced: [[2023_11_30]] 6:03 AM Last Highlighted: [[2023_08_21]] Tags: [[Advice]] [[Model]] [[Personal Growth]] ![rw-book-cover](https://waitbutwhy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Tail-End-F.png) Time may be short but if you reframe things in terms of how many times you’ll get to do them again it is all up to you what you make of it. Want more time, spend more time. ## Highlights [[2023_08_21]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8bcdpft69a1fr21wnc0j988) [[model]] > It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end. Overlap with those older than you makes a big difference in how much time you’ll get to spend with them. [[2023_08_21]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8bcasme4051t3kwh0k8z8zg) > **Living in the same place as the people you love matters.** I probably have 10X the time left with the people who live in my city as I do with the people who live somewhere else. [[2023_08_21]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h8bcbt7gpmg1dnbtt6qs1ymq) > **Quality time matters.** If you’re in your last 10% of time with someone you love, keep that fact in the front of your mind when you’re with them and treat that time as what it actually is: precious.