We as Humans

Perspective.

Today is my birthday.

Which doesn't relate to anything other than a focal point I guess. But Hank Green made the example of one million seconds. You probably think of one million seconds as quite a long time. In fact, it's about twelve and a half days. Yet twelve and a half days sounds so much shorter than one million seconds. It's all perspective.

See, the thing about birthdays is that you remember them. I can remember what I did on December 13th last year and the year before better than I can most other obscure days. In a few hundred days, things change. There are different people around me and different feeling and in a cynical way I'm a lot less naïve. A year ago I was just starting on the age I'm leaving today.

I don't feel that different than I did a day ago and in some perspective I don't feel that different than I did a few months ago. But when I look back on this day last year, things were so far from what they are now. And it's hard to pinpoint where things changed but somewhere between those days they did.

Perspective isn't something I think much about until I'm driving down a road I don't recognize and I realize it took me less than ten minutes to leave behind my whole small world. My whole world takes less than 3600 seconds, less than three square miles, less than ten minutes, to leave.

I change in 3600 seconds. I change in twelve and a half days. In a years perspective I feel so very...... different about things.

I'm not an inspirational person. I believe the worst in people and myself and I can't guarantee you that in a year things will even be slightly better because sometimes they aren't.

All I can say is look at life in perspective.

People are small and what feel like years of pain you will someday only remember seconds of.

And someday, everything you're feeling at this moment will be in the past. Every heartbreak and skinned knee and deep love and failure will someday be something you look back on.

In perspective, 31536000 seconds ago it was my birthday. Today, it's my birthday.

Really think about where you were a year ago.

No particular riveting ideas here. Just the passage of time confusing someone who's not very experienced in aging. Also, after three websites, I discovered no good synonyms for this use of different. Though apparently promiscuous is a synonym to different; though rarely used in the same context due to sexual connotations.