If a Hundred Years-Long Life Were Only a Week, It Would Be Wednesday 4:48pm for Me
Let’s make the most out of this Hump Day evening, and the rest of the week
Everything in life can be put into perspective. Time or time management itself is no exception to that rule.
The book Four Thousand Weeks — Time Management For Mortals by Oliver Burkeman is the best antidote I’ve found to date to the relentless — and quite simply useless, as the book breaks it down — productivity mania of the 21st century human. Burkeman does his version of putting our lives onto a grand timeline of existence. He uses a centenarian lifetime to represent one step of said timeline. He goes:
“Jesus was born about twenty lifetimes ago, and the Renaissance happened seven lifetimes back. A paltry five centenarian lifetimes ago, Henry VIII sat on the English throne.”
If you’ve read any of my true stories about the double stroke I survived last year, then you know about my full intention to live to one hundred years, minimum.
I honestly don’t know how or why my brain put a spin on the perfectly reasonable and clear representation of the scale of our “Cosmic Insignificance” — a term by Burkeman, — but it did.
I imagined what if a…
