This post isn't going to be so much about words but about numbers. I spend so much time talking here that I don't often stop to think about the digits. Until today.
I've always known that things were approaching fast. I mean, time is a universal invariance. It doesn't just stop because I forget about it. But I'd never quite thought about exactly how quickly important events were approaching. When you think about big milestones in your life you always brush them off and say 'Oh, that's ages away.' until suddenly it comes right around the corner and hits you in the face. And this time has been no different.
This morning I opened up my countdown app only to have these numbers staring back at me.
21 days, 1 hrs, 27 mins, 47 secs
And it scared the crap out of me.
In exactly three weeks, get that THREE, I would be on the train heading to my presentation. Even now I think about where I will be in three weeks. Exactly 21 days from now it'll all be over. Out of my hands. Gone.
And it got me thinking, what else is coming? So here they are, your numbers, with a side order of surprise.
Interview: 3 weeks
Acceptance/NLIC: 5 weeks
21st Birthday: 6 weeks, 3 days
Christmas: 18 weeks, 2 days
New Years: 19 weeks, 2 days
Departure: 19 weeks, 5 days
Check In: 20 weeks
Consider, if you will, that I applied 17 weeks and 4 days ago and it feels like only yesterday. In another 17 weeks and four days I'll be saying goodbye to most of my family with only mere days before I depart.
They say time flies when you're having fun but I did not realize I was having that much fun.
- Lily
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