Repost In Honor of Pi Day

 Happy Pi day!

Today is Pi day.  In case you aren't sure what that is, from Pi Day.org:

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and to eat pie.

In honor of Pi Day, I thought I'd re-post Les' theory of the speed of life.  I originally wrote about it in 2009 and said, "I was thinking the other morning about how quickly this year is moving along. Then it dawned on me - it has been a decade since Y2K! That seems like it happened a few years ago, not a decade!"  It's now been TWO decades since Y2K!  High school seniors weren't even born then.

When you are 2 years old, one year seems like a long time because it is one half of your life, one half of your experiences.

When you are 4 years old, one year still seems long because it is one fourth of your life.

When you are 16 years old, a year can move a little faster seeing how it is only one sixteenth of your life.

By the time you're 50, well time really does fly! A year is a small portion of your life - so in light of your life experiences, it really is shorter! (I'm speaking from experience here!)

James 4:14 puts it this way "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."  I want to make every slice of life count, no matter how quickly it comes.

I think I'll have a piece of pie, too. Remember: We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

When Daylight Saving Time and Pi Day Collide

I've posted several times Les' theory of how time moves more swiftly as we get older.  You can read all about it here.  In a nutshell, time appears to move more quickly as we get older because a year becomes a smaller slice of our life.

 

Today is Pi Day - celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and to eat pie. 

 

Today is also the beginning of Daylight Saving Time.  Most of us had the "joy" of Springing Forward, meaning we lost an hour of sleep.  Since the slices of my time pie continue to get smaller, I'm not thrilled with losing that bite!  As one article stated, "Back then, somebody in the government thought it would be an awfully good idea to give everybody jet lag … even though jets had not even been invented yet."  While I love the later sunsets, I miss the earlier sunrises!

Five years ago I posted something from a devotional about time:

We're like the fellow on the bus who refused to tell another passenger what time it was. After being asked several times, he turned his back, and the young man went on and asked someone else. At the next stop, someone who had seen the exchange scolded the man, and this was his rationale: "If I had told that young man what time it was, we would have struck up a conversation, and I probably would have liked him. Before long, he would have gotten himself invited to supper, and my beautiful daughter would have met him. The two of them would probably fall in love, and want to get married - but I don't want my daughter marrying a man who can't afford a watch!" 

The point of the devotion was getting involved, but it struck me as funny that the man went from "what time is it?" to "May I marry your daughter?" without even knowing the fellow passenger's name!  There are so many things wrong with this man's thinking.  Perhaps the young man's watch was in the repair shop.  Perhaps he had a girlfriend, or was even married.  You can't judge a book by its cover and you certainly can't judge someone based on whether they have a watch or not!

 

 

The point of all this is simple - time is precious.  We have a limited amount of time.  Psalm 90:12 says, "So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."  Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible says, "Let us deeply consider our own frailty, and the shortness and uncertainty of life, that we may live for eternity, acquaint ourselves with thee and be at peace; that we may die in thy favor and live and reign with thee eternally."

I went searching for a quote to finish this post, it was written about my brother, Rod, in the school yearbook after he passed away.  "It's not the years in the life that count, but the life in the years. Rod was full of zeal for life and in the course of his life he gave us laughter, faith, and encouragement."  Rod lived a short 31 years, he would have turned 58 this month, but what he did with those 31 years was amazing.  He made the years count.

I don't want to spend time worrying about an hour that was lost due to a time change.  I want the hours I have to count.

Repost: Math Class ~ the Speed of Life

Today is Pi day.  In case you aren't sure what that is, from Pi Day.org:

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and to eat pie.

In honor of Pi Day, I thought I'd re-post Les' theory of the speed of life.  I originally wrote about it in 2009 and said, "I was thinking the other morning about how quickly this year is moving along. Then it dawned on me - it has been a decade since Y2K! That seems like it happened a few years ago, not a decade!"  It's now been TWO decades since Y2K!  High school seniors weren't even born then.

When you are 2 years old, one year seems like a long time because it is one half of your life, one half of your experiences.

When you are 4 years old, one year still seems long because it is one fourth of your life.

When you are 16 years old, a year can move a little faster seeing how it is only one sixteenth of your life.

By the time you're 50, well time really does fly! A year is a small portion of your life - so in light of your life experiences, it really is shorter! (I'm speaking from experience here!)

James 4:14 puts it this way "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."  I want to make every slice of life count, no matter how quickly it comes.

I think I'll have a piece of pie, too. Remember: We all get heavier as we get older, because there's a lot more information in our heads. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Happy Pi Day!

The number with no ending...

Just a little humor for the numbers geeks!

Make my slice cherry!