Love In a Mist

In 2014 blogger, Tim Urban, wrote a post called " Your Life in Weeks ."  In it is a graph 52 columns by 90 rows.  It is a graphic representation of a person's life should they live until just before their 91st birthday.  Oddly, this simple chart has had a profound impact on my life because I have a  tendency  to live this day much like the last, and the one I expect will come again tomorrow.  A lot of the time is wasted on frivolous things and his chart reminds me that I won't get that time back.  Once it's gone, it's gone.   Seeing a representation of your time and the amount of spaces already checked off as well as the fewer number left to come is powerful.  Another powerful tool to help me appreciate my life is to put it into context of history.  Being here in Italy where I am engulfed in a medieval city it is easy to remember that I am only a member of the current generation in a very long list of generations who have been here before.  History is a contin