Friday, June 06, 2003

• Modern Arithmetic

  It's time we get this show on the road. I really need to get some things done because life is just flying by. Whoosh... there it goes. It's getting under my skin and gnawing at my entrails. (Pretty picture, eh?) The thing of it is, I have (barring unforeseen incident) roughly forty-five more years to live. Yes, that is 50% more years than I have lived through already but it's only 22.58% of the the time I get to spend on earth. Doesn't seem to add up? It does, here's how:
  
  Someone, at some point, changed the way time works. It originally ran in segments of years that were actual years, three-hundred sixty-five and one quarter days long. The first fifteen that I lived through were truly fifteen years. And then the subtle change came intro play. The next fifteen years didn't elapse in fifteen years, they passed in only seven and a half. That's the same only fifty percent of the time in one hundred percent of the years. Should the pattern continue, the next fifteen years of my life will take an actual elapsed time of only 3.75 years and the fifteen after that, not even a whole two years... I have less than one quarter of my real-time life remaining. Damn this modern math.

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