Calendar, which will put everything in the life of the places

In a previous article we considered the duration of human life. On years:

By month:

And by week:

At the time of writing this article, I also made a schedule of days, but it was a bit more than you need, so I postponed it. But to hell:

Schedule by day shakes my imagination as much as the schedule for weeks. Each of these points - it's just another Tuesday, Friday or Sunday. But even the man who was lucky enough to live up to the 90th anniversary, no difficulty will be able to fit all the days of his life on a single sheet of paper.

But while I was writing about the life of a week, I began to think about what something else.

Instead of measuring your life in terms of time, you can measure it in some kind of action or event. I here by way of example.

I am 34 years old. Let us superoptimistichny and say that I'll be spending time here, making the schematic drawings, until I was 90. If so, in front of left me a little less than 60 winters:

And perhaps 60 Super Bowls:

Cold water in the ocean, and to be there - not the most pleasant experience, so I set a limit for yourself:

to swim in the ocean only once a year. Therefore, even though it seems strange, I have to go to the ocean is not more than 60 times:

Apart from research blog Wait But Why, I read about five books a year. Even if it seems to me that in the future I I can read an infinite number of books, in fact I would have to choose the 300 books of all the possible and recognize that I can go on forever without ever knowing what happened to the others:

Since I grew up in Boston, the Red Sox went to the game every time. But if I'm not there will move again, most likely, I will go to Red Sox games somewhere once every three year - this explains a short string of my 20 visits to the remaining ballpark "Fenway The park".

In the course of my life president elected eight times, but there are still about 15. I saw five different presidents, and, if the rate remains the same, I see nine more.

I usually eat pizza once a month, so I have the opportunity to eat pizza even 700 times. More brighter future awaits me dumplings. I eat Chinese food twice a month and usually eat at least six dumplings at a time, so I made a graph of dumplings, which look forward to:

But those are not the things that I thought. Most of the above events occur with constant regularity for every year of my life, and therefore to some extent evenly spaced in time. And if for the moment I have lived a third of my life, I also went a third of all activities and events along the way.

What I thought about is what is really important part of life, in contrast to all of these examples, it does not apply in time evenly. About that, what the ratio "has already been done - to be done" does not work, no matter how far I moved through life - the relationship.

I thought about my parents, who are now more than 60. During the first 18 years, I have spent time with their parents at least 90% of the days. Ever since I went to college and moved from Boston, I usually see them five times a year, an average of two days at a time. Ten days in the year. It is only 3% of the amount of days that I spent with them during their childhood.

Since now they seventies, let us continue to be optimistic and say that I am one of those incredibly happy people whose parents are still alive, when I'm 60. This gives us about 30 years of coexistence. If you continue to see them for 10 days in a year, which means that in front of me 300 days, which I can spend with my mom and dad. This is less than I spent with them one year before my 18th birthday.

When you look at the real situation, you will realize that despite the fact that you are far from death, you can be very close to the end of his time with some of the most important people in his life. If I have a schedule of days that I have spent and will spend with their parents - assuming that I'm lucky enough, as far as possible - this becomes obvious:

It turns out that when I finished school, I had already spent 93% of their time with their parents. And now I enjoy the remaining 5%. We are at the very end.

A similar story with my two sisters. After living together in the same house 10 and 13 years, respectively, now I live equally far from both of them and I can each hold no more than 15 days per year. Hopefully, we will have to come another 15% jointly conducted by time.

It is the same with old friends. In school I hung around with the same four guys, five days a week. In the four years we were going to hang out together about 700 times. Now, all over the country, with very different lives and schedules, all five of us are in the same place for about 10 days in every 10 years. Our company is in its last 7%.

So that gives us this information?

Leaving aside the secret hope that technological progress will allow me to live to 700 years, I see there are three main conclusions:

1. It is important to live in the same place and the people you love. I spend about 10 times more time with people who live in my city than the people who live somewhere else.
2. It is important to set priorities. Your remaining private time with a particular person depends on where the person is in your list of priorities. Make sure this list is compiled yourself, and not unconsciously moving by inertia.
3. It is important to the quality of the time conducted. If you have less than 10% of the time with someone whom you love, keep this fact in mind when you're next to him. Spend this time, remembering what it really is: a great value.