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I found this oddly depressing.

• bobbles 15y ago
  It's like realising that most people get around 4000 weekends for their lifetime, and then realising how many weekends you've already had.
  • corin_ 15y ago
    I'm not sure it's worse (or better) to think "I'm halfway to 4000 weekends" than "I'm half way to 76 years"?
    • bobbles 15y ago
      For me personally the 4000 weekends has more of an impact, because I can realistically picture what I would get done in any given couple of days.. 76 years seems a bit too much of a 'big picture' to really comprehend.
  • a-priori 15y ago
    Equivalently, a few months ago someone online pointed out that you get about 1000 months to live. For some reason that gives me a huge sense of urgency.
• morrow 15y ago
  Not to get too analytical or philosophical, but I think it's because clocks normally represent time cyclically, as a repetitive process counting and displaying a sub-set of an ethereal infinite time set. Whereas this clock visualizes time spatially in known, limited, diminishing quantities. The depressing part is either that this forces you to realize or reminds you that time is, in fact, limited -- or that it tricks you into thinking time isn't infinite, depending on your philosophy.