Interesting question by my daughter yesterday. She wanted to know how old she would be if she had a birthday every day of her life. You see, she's turning 10 next week. And I'm, well, turning 40 a few days later. So, a lot of discussion at our house lately has been centered around birthdays.
So, we quickly did the math: 10 x 365, minus a few days for leap years, and that's around a whopping 3,650 days. That's a lot of sunrises and sunsets. A lot of betime stories. A lot of everything a kid does day in and day out.
Then, multiply that by 4 for me, and well, you get the idea. Not to say I'm getting old, but I do know I've experienced a lot. I remember life before microwaves, cell phones, video games, and owned a little something that played these:
How do I account for that many trips around the sun? I've never been one to worry about milestone birthdays, but it's been very hard lately not to be a bit introspective; thinking about what has been, what could have been, what will be.
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