Today Pumpkin reminded me of something really important … death is just around the corner. Yes, this is the type of uplifting conversations that often occur between a mother and daughter.She had a point though. Death is somewhere right around the corner, psychologically at least. She was talking to me about a depressing calculation that she had just done. She calculated the number of months that she still had to live based on her current age and the average mortality age for women (around 78). Now when you think “I have 55 years to live”, 55 YEARS seems like quite a long time because we think of a year being quite a long time. Now when you then say "I have 660 months to live" it just doesn’t seem like that much. I mean, a month isn’t a “long” time and 660 just isn’t that big a number. I mean, February is almost over so that would make it 659. Akkk!
I told her that she wasn’t allowed to do my calculation on 78 because I just don’t believe that 78 is my limit. I asked her to calculate my “months left” on 101. So for me, 101 – 48 * 12 (we are not being super accurate here although I am sure that there is a website somewhere out there that does this calculation for you … accurately) makes 636 months left.
And for my mom we used my Grandmother’s age when she died (84) so she has 84 – 67 * 12 = 204. 204 is nothing! At least it feels like nothing.
What this conversation did for me (besides giving me a blog topic) is to make me more aware of life passing by. Time is short; I only have about 636 months left. Time for me to make the most of it!
Calculate your potential months left and see if it makes you look at time passing any differently. Might change your life … at least what’s left.
Have a super terrific rest of the month,
Ella
so your mother is only living to 84 but you're living to 101
ReplyDeleteinteresting math!
Yea, that's pretty unfair. My mom is 82 and also said she is going to over 100...but this is only so she can get her picture on the Smuckers food label, she would get on some TV show and gets a letter from the president...maybe it will be her presidential pardon.
ReplyDeleteMe – I’m invisible so who cares…could be today, could be tomorrow, could be in 600 months….I’ve always lived for today - well I do actually have things on my calendar for this summer, which is beyond today - but so people I know died young that I believe you may as well do something in your life now, there may not be a point in waiting.