My wife just told me this morning that were celebrating our 6! anniversary. To the mathematically uninitiated 6! is the multiplication of 6 with all numbers below it up to 1 i.e. 6x5x4x3x2x1 = 720days or nearly 2 years.
And I realized we have such a large unit of years to look at life and I think we must consider these other units to realize the brevity of this life we live. Like the next factorial anniversary we celebrate will be just after we complete 13 years of marriage and the 8! anniversary will be after our impossible 110th anniversary! (I have not put a factorial symbol after the word anniversary :D)
There is another viewing glass for the time we are alive called the 'Divided By Five' year. It essentially divides the years of our life into blocks of 5 years each. So if we live up to a ripe old age of 80 years we have lived only 16 units of life. We reach our teens after 2 units, start working around 5 units later and become senior citizens after living 12 units of life.
This is how much time we have. It is not too long. So spend it on things and more importantly on people you treasure and love the most!
Dedicated to Rev Fr Ivo Dsouza (1944 - 2014) who lived 14 units or between 7! and 8! days of his life teaching, preaching, caring, reaching out and inspiring students, teachers and parishioners with his words and actions! We love you Fr Ivo and we will miss you!
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Interesting exposition Kenny, a unique way to brings things into perspective.
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