Do You Remember This

Monday's child is fair of face.

Tuesday's child is full of grace.

Wednesday's child is full of woe.

Thursday's child has far to go.

Friday's child is loving and giving.

Saturday's child works hard for his living.

And the child that is born on the Sabbath day,

is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

I was born on a Tuesday. Supposedly, I am very gracious, agreeable, refined, and polite in manner or behavior. And in truth, I do my best to be, but I am far from perfect but this isn't about how riled up I get or how down I can get (after all, I am human).

No, this is about numbers. I celebrated a birthday Thursday, my 74th. Today, I saw a challenge by coldfront, and it made me think as he has many numbers in his post relating to his birthday as well as other days, hours, minutes and seconds that he will use wisely to make changes in his life, but again, this isn't about his decisions. But what I did was interesting and here are the results I found.

Days alive: 27, 092 (as of today.)

Months alive: 888 (as of now)

Weeks alive: 3,861.4 (as of today)

Hours alive: 648,554 (as of right now)

Minutes alive: 38,913,180 (as of right now)

Seconds alive: 2,335,484,000 (as of right now)

Of course by the time I post and y6ou read this all the above numbers will have change4d somewhat for the one fact in life we cannot stop, change or alter is time. It goes on whether we want it to stop or not.

9 days from now: Halloween (as of right now)

15 days from now: Time is set back one hour: November 7th)

33 days until Thanksgiving (as of right now)

63 days until Christmas (as of right now)

70 days before we roll into 2022 (as of right now)

During all this, there will be wars going on, families struggling, Covid running its course, students frantic with studies, parents worried about their children. Families will gather round during the holidays, open gifts and be thankful. Winter will be harsh, the homeless will still be homeless, but the holidays seems to bring a brief respite, though ever brief.

Time: the single entity that changes the course of events for all of us.