The Blink Sermon
A human blink lasts for 0.3 to 0.4
seconds. This varies fairly widely.
Think about this for a minute.
Let’s assume that 1/3 of a second is a good average for a normal human
being. So what? What’s less than half a second? What’s your point?
Here’s my point.
3 blinks = 1 second
180 blinks = 1 minute
10800 blinks = 1 hour
1259,200 blinks = 1 day
We blink about 10 times per minute.
1 min = 10 blinks
1 hour = 600 blinks
1 day = 14400 blinks
In one day we blink 14,400
times. That means our eyes are closed
for 80 minutes. (14,400 blinks (per day)
/ 180 blinks (which equals 1 minute)
You miss 80 minutes every day, just
because you blinked. Gone. You blinked and lost 80 minutes of your life
yesterday. You’ll do it again tomorrow
and the day after, there’s no way to stop it.
There are 365 days a year, * 80
minutes per day = 29,200 minutes per year.
That’s roughly 486 hours per year.
To get an exact answer we have to go to 3 years. You lose 1460 hours every three years by
blinking. That’s 60.8 days every 3 years. 365 / 60.8 = 6.003289 blah. This means, you lose 1 year of your life for
every 18 that you live.
When you graduated high school and
voted for the first time, you had already lost a year just because you blinked.
By 36, you have lost 2 years, just
because you blinked.
54 – You are 3 years down
72 – You have lost 4 years in the
blink of an eye.
Now consider that we also sleep for
about 1/3 of our lives. (about 8 of 24
hours is spent sleeping)
18 – 1 year blinking and 6 years
sleeping = 7 years.
36 – 2 years blinking, 12 sleeping =
14
54 – 3 + 18 = 21 (the part of you
that had its eyes closed is now old enough to drink!)
72 – 4 + 24 = 28 years of your life
spend blinking or sleeping.
18/7 ratio of living your life vs
missing it. Or roughly 39% of our lives is spent with our eyes closed.
WAIT there’s more!
Let’s say you also work 40 hours a
week. Let’s say you get 1 week vacation
every year. You could subtract the whole
amount of the time you spend at work, but let’s assume you enjoy your job. 40*51=2040 hours. 2040 hours = 85 days per year. That’s 23% of each year spent working. (Hours Worked * Weeks Worked)/365
Now, apply your tax rate to that
number. Let’s say you only pay 10%. 10% of 23% is 2.3% of your life per year
you’ve worked has been to pay the government.
5% tax rate * 23% is 1.15% of your
life
20% of 23% is 4.6% of your life.
Add your tax rate life % to your
blink/sleep number. Are you down 41%?
44%?
You only get to live about a 60% of
your life as it is, just because you did things you have no control over. We naturally lose out on almost 40% of our
lives for simple maintenance. Most of us
don’t spend our time as wisely as we should.
So now let me ask you: How much of your
life is a “fair share”? When you hear
someone on TV, or the radio saying that people need to pay their “Fair Share”,
how much of your life is a fair share?
You START with only 60% of it. Is
another 2% “fair”? How about 5%? Or 10%?
Under our current tax system, about half of us give up none of our lives
working for the government (0% tax rate) while others are donating 10% of their
lives to support the government.
(working 80 hours a week every week).
So ask yourself: What is your fair
share?
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