36 birthdays left… if you're lucky

So we posted something in Equiteam Connected because I was doing my usual in a morning, having my cup of tea and having a, a doom scroll, check my emails, that kind of thing.

And I had an email that came in, and I'm pretty sure the title was Busy, Busy, Busy, Busy, Busy, Dead.

And I was like, oh.

And it was from The Arc of Brilliance, who-- It was founded by Dr. Andy Cope, and we've had him on the podcast before.

And I just really love his way of thinking.

It's all to do with positive psychology, so instead of thinking about what's wrong with people, looking at what's right, and you will have heard us talk about them before.

Anyway, he has worked out that on average, the average human, based on you being alive for 80 years, is 29,000 days, which works out at 4,000 weeks.

And I think, and for me, 29,000 days seems like, oh, that's quite a big number.

4,000 weeks seems a bit more scary, I suppose.

But in this, um, in this email, there is a link to this calculator so that you can have a little look at, um, at how many weeks you've lived, and on average, obviously it's not an exact science because there's so many people who unfortunately don't make it to 80, and how much you've got left.

And on Andy's one, the thing that really got me thinking is, he's like, "I've got 21 Christmas mornings left." And I was like, oh my gosh.

That all of a sudden seems like quite a small number.

And then it got me thinking about this whole, like, busy, busy, busy, as it says.

Busy, busy, busy, busy, busy, dead.

What we actually all doing to enjoy, like, ourselves and the day-to-day stuff and our life and celebrating the small things and, um, Bob, who is my son, he's in this thing at the moment where he's just desperate to get to 16.

Desperate to get to 16 because he's got s- he feels it's a real milestone, and he can do some really-Big things for him, like he wants to do his tractor test.

He's looking at not staying on at college, um, at, at school, potentially looking at college or a kind of an apprenticeship or things like that.

So for him, 16 is this massive age.

But he started already wishing away an entire year of his life, and I think, blimey, like he's 15 and he's already counting down till he's 16.

And once he's 16, I know he'll be counting down till he's 17, and he can drive, you know? And, and all of a sudden you're like, gosh, what about making the most of like, of all of it? So if anyone wants to do the link, we'll pop it in the, in the show notes, but it's on the Art of Brilliance, um, website.

And my scary stat, because I am the wonderful age of 44, which in itself is quite scary, it says that I have lived for, when I did this, 16,123 days, and I've got 13,097 left.

So I've got less ahead, which I was like, "Oh, that's a bit sombering." And then I've lived for 2,303 weeks, and I've got 1,871 remaining.

But then these are the things that really got me going, "Oh my gosh," 36 Christmas mornings, 36 birthdays, 36 springs, and I love spring, 36 New Year's Eve, uh, 1,865 Sunday mornings.

And based on having beach days in summer, of which I have very few, this is 12 per summer, and I don't have-- I don't ever do 12 beach days a summer, 430 left.

That's it.