Anxiety/compulsion centred around the notion of eternity

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Anyone gets this? It's e.g. when I'm reading something online, although halfway through I might have already got what I needed, but I feel compelled to continue on because otherwise I might never stumble upon it again in my life (which is statistically probable, considering the amount of writing that exists) - and might possibly miss something that I'd never encounter again in all of time.

Hm, not sure if that's too specific... does anyone otherwise have any kind of fears that concern time?

I do not have the compulsions you have, but I do have an intense fear concerning time/eternity. I don't know how to explain it though. When it's the turn of th eyear, I always feel anxiosu because the old year never comes back, even if it was a crappy year that I wouldn't want to go through again.

I think I see what you mean. There's a lot to pack into a lifetime, or at least a lot recommended of others. A large part of my decision to get fit over a year ago was that I was at a peak in my youth, to fight against deterioration that otherwise might set in earlier. To take that into my life was an extremely positive thing and one of my best decisions.

Other things are challenges on patience, time and priorities though. What books should you read, and how do you know you should read them? How should your career go? Your love life? Who should you associate with? I'm pretty certain me posting this here right now is a waste of time in terms of not missing the best of life.

I think I understand.
It's just, I don't get anxiety, fear or compulsions.
I just like to fully complete things, because it's not too hard.
For the sake of having a complete amount of knowledge, it's worth reading the rest...
(I guess this is just a natural curiosity.)

Good lord, yes. Entropy freaks me out. Infinity fascinates me. I can look at an asymptotic mathematical equation and feel vaguely uneasy. But the funny thing is--those things scare me, but they intrigue me at the same time. I knew how black holes worked when I was ten years old; I even taught myself about what equations were so I could work out the equations I read about in books about them. Black holes are beautiful, bizarre, fascinating, frightening; they follow from the laws of physics, and then break those same laws... they are the closest thing in the real world to a cosmic Cthulhu.

I know exactly what you mean OP, and I do the same thing. It's a compulsion for me, so it gets really irritating. On a time related note, I have a fear of death and aging, since I want to learn and do as many things possible in my lifetime; so in a way, I'm terrified of time.