Hi all, how has your day been so far? Or should i ask, how has your life been so far? Do you know what the title represents? Do you know what the numbers mean? Well, it's the total number of days that a person who lives till the age of 80 has to live.
Do you not feel that when you look how much time you have in terms of the number of days, it looks really short? Lets say you are 25 this year, you would have approximately 20,000 days left to live and if you are 35, about 16,500 days left to live.
Consider this example, Mike, who is 35 this year working at a mid level job with working hours from 9 to 6.
He takes an hour to travel to work and another hour back. That is a total of 11 hours of his day sacrificed in exchange for an income. Say he works till the retirement age of 65. For the sake of simplicity of calculation, a year would consist of 260 work days( 52 weeks*5 ). That would be 2,860 hours per year or 119 days and by the age of 65, would be 3,570 days.
The situation only gets more disastrous. Do not forget that out of these 16,500 days, about 1/3 of it or 8 hours a days will be spent sleeping. According to my calculations, you would be left with only a miserable 11,000 days left to live(16,500*0.66666), and that's considering you live to 80 and don't work over time and weekends.
How does it sound now that you have only got 11,000 days left to live? Scary right? Everyone has different choices in life. Mine is to try to save as much as i can, cut my spending to a minimum and invest wisely so i can stop wasting my life working and worrying about money. The precious number of days i have left would be better spent on my loved ones and myself.
What are your thoughts on this? Are you of a similar thought? Are you going to live to work or are u going to work to live? Share your thoughts, i would really appreciate views from different people.
As always, save more, spend less and invest wisely.
P.
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