We love countdowns. The last seconds of the year are flashed in a big screen on a New Year’s Eve party. Where I live, we get daily reminders on how many days are left before Christmas Day. In the middle of the work week, we anticipate the coming weekend and silently hope that the days go faster.
But there is something that we do not realize. We are not just counting down towards some event, we are actually counting down towards our eventual demise.