The shorter you make the units to measure life, the shorter time you get to live the life. In seconds, minutes, days? The problem of the modern world is not necessarily quantity or quality, but simply living and surviving.
Living is associated with happiness; surviving becomes its opposite—enduring life without actually experiencing it.
When people are living, they generally don't calculate happiness. They experience it. During hardship, however, people count every second and wait for it to end.
The modern world increasingly measures everything: time, productivity, movement, output, attention.
Do not measure life.
Do take your time.
Do not fall for productivity.
Do live your life; measure it in seasons and decades.
Do not die a survivor.
Do die a living soul.
It is simple, but to be simple is hard.