Your clock started.
You have successfully survived a remarkable number of Mondays.
Your body got to work.
From the moment you arrived, your body began quietly doing an extraordinary amount of work.
Estimated using 80 beats per minute.
Fortunately, the fingernails did not grow all at once.
Everyday life added up.
Small routines become surprisingly large numbers when you repeat them for years.
Estimated using eight hours of sleep per day.
And somehow the question remains: โWhat do you want for dinner?โ
Earth carried you along.
Even on the days you went nowhere, the planet beneath you never stopped moving.
You were awake for considerably fewer of those sunrises.
Technology was changing.
The digital world did not arrive all at once. Some of it was already here. Some of it appeared while you were growing up.
Your life in strange measurements.
These are not suggestions. They are simply proof that large spans of time become absurd when converted into smaller things.
average two-hour movies could fit into your lifetime.
three-minute songs could play, one after another.
extended Lord of the Rings trilogies could fit into your lifetime.
books could have been read at a pace of one per week.
Fortunately, no one expects you to have used all of it efficiently.
While you were reading this pageโฆ
The numbers did not stop while you were scrolling.
And your story is still counting.