Hello Melvin… this is your spreadsheet speaking.
Spreadsheets have this wonderful ability — they can focus our attention on important, quantifiable matters.
A friend recently reminded me, that we have limited time with people who matter to us. If you want to be gripped with conviction, read these two articles:
TD;LR — You think you have forever with people you love and care about?
No, you don’t.
And if you don’t count what’s left of your time with them, you may one day regret squandering those opportunities.
So — I decided to put hard numbers down on a spreadsheet…
My life expectancy (which is not guaranteed), my remaining years (also not guaranteed), a list of people I care about, and enjoy being with… their age and their life expectancy (not guaranteed — see the trend?)…
All the above numbers, on one sheet… based on optimistic scenarios. And… based on how frequently I spend time with them each year — a number for each person… the number of times we’ll get to meet again in our lifetime. To keep this simple, I used one day, as a unit of measure for time spent with each person.
For effect, the spreadsheet also displays that number, as a percentage of the number of days I expect to continue working.
And that is it. I can end this article here — because the spreadsheet will do the rest of the talking. And we might as well get used to abrupt endings.
Feel free to make a copy of this Google Sheet, and modify it for your personal use. Since it’s public, I’ve removed names and real numbers — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KjxjLxP3cYYXtVN4OOFPZhoAipKgpV5QnZMtNwOwlbk/edit?pli=1#gid=0
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