I Only Had 12,180 Days Left to Live — Now I Have Less

Putting your time in perspective

Thomas Ott
The Weathered Publication
5 min readNov 26, 2022

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Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash

Nine years ago I wrote something on a whiteboard that I posted to my Tumblr. I wrote, “If I Live to be 76, I have 12,180 days left to live as of today — 7/18/13.” That’s a heavy sentiment and now, almost a decade later, what have I done with those precious days? What have I done with the elapsed time? Did I waste them?

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