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Most people only know their age in terms of years. But for the last several years, I have made a point to be aware of my age in days. Your age in years carries societal baggage around what it means to be in your 20s, 30s, etc., but your age in days just is what it is. At 30,000 days old, you’ll be 82, roughly an average life expectancy. I celebrated my 10,000th day a few years ago. More recently, I turned 11,000 days old. I find that being aware of my age in days really helps puts things in perspective. I keep track of my age in days by writing the number in the top right corner of my morning journal. If I go too many days in a row without journaling to simply add the number of days in my head, I’ll just look it up again on a website like daysold.com. If you want to be more aware of your own mortality, and more willfully ignorant of what society says you should be doing at a certain age in life, I would say a healthy awareness of your age in days is good. Let me know if you decide to try it.
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love this. somewhat adjacent: I have a similar thought with years. The year 2024 makes anything BC feel unnecessarily distant and disconnected to prior history (at least personally) Let’s say you picked year 0 as the Younger Dryas 12,900 years ago. History *feels* very different: Beginning of agriculture: year ~1,000 Sumerians: year 7,000 Great pyramids: year 8,500 Founding of Rome: year 10,347 Cleopatra: year 10,607 Tang dynasty: 11,506 Columbus discover America: 12,368 Moon landing: 12,845 Etc etc
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Interesting also just makes everything a lot easier to register mentally than a timeline which is mostly unnecessarily termed in negative numbers basically
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I like 2024 because it is exactly the same year as 1996 (days matching other days) and 1996 is my birth and next exact same year will be in 28 years !
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