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You Have 28667 Days — Will You Waste Them?

Goncalo Hoshi
7 min readJun 9, 2020

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If you had to guess, how many days would you say the average human life has?

A) 28667 days

B) 340723 days

C) 1870943 days

Surprisingly enough, it's 28667 days.

4095.3 Weeks

78.54 Years.

To put that into context, if you are 25 years old, right now, you have 2792 weeks left to live if everything goes right.

And even if everything goes right, that feels uncomfortably short. Too short.

Put it this way, all the experiences you want to live through, the people you want to meet, the obstacles you want to overcome, all of those will have to happen in the next 19542 days, or not at all.

Doesn’t seem so long now, does it?

When we put it into context things start to get really scary really quick. Not so much because it is actually a short time, but because we tend to waste so much of it, usually, with the excuse that we have so much left.

Sure, you may want to go after all these things… but not as much as you want to be comfortable in the short-term.

“That’s not true! I don’t value comfort more than my goals!” — You may be thinking about commenting below.

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Goncalo Hoshi
Goncalo Hoshi

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