One Day at a Time
August 19th, 2006 Posted in My Life, Seen on the WebIt’s been a long time since I first came across Peter Russell’s excellent site. However, one of the more trivial-seeming items on it has been the one that has intrigued me most: he keeps track of his “(ext)age in days”:http://peterussell.com/age.html. Russell notes that “The day is the natural cycle of our lives. The cycle of light and dark, wakefulness and sleep, has more significance than the cycle of the seasons.” Who can argue with that?
I was interested in tracking days for the same reason he was, to think about time differently, and to encourage myself to see each day as a new event, full of all the possibility it contains. But it’s not easy to make that work without having frequent reminders of the number. So, I adapted his Javascript for my own site and have a reminder for myself in the very header of the page. (I also added calculations for how many lunar cycles I have lived, and what percentage of this cycle is complete.) If you’d like to calculate your age in days, go to http://peterussell.com/age.html.
3 Responses to “One Day at a Time”
By Zach Young on Aug 20, 2006
Interesting. I had never thought about that before. It does make some sense, but I think I’d always forget what number I was on!:-/
By Jon on Aug 20, 2006
Hence the need to make it visible. Yay, I’m 16582 today! Happy Birthday to me!