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Life
Typical Lifespan
Someone has calculated how a typical lifespan of 70 years is spent. Here is the estimate:
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Sleep |
23 years |
.32.9% |
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Work |
16 years |
22.8% |
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TV |
8 years |
11.4% |
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Eating |
6 years |
8.6% |
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Travel |
6 years |
8.6% |
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Leisure |
4.5 years |
6.5% |
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Illness |
4 years |
5.7% |
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Dressing |
2 years |
2.8% |
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Religion |
0.5 years |
0.7% |
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TOTAL |
70 years |
100% |
Our Daily Bread, November 25, 1992
How You Spend Your Timse
In an average lifetime, the average American spends:
- 3 years in business meetings
- 13 years watching TV
- $89,281 on food
- Consumes 109,354 pounds of food
- Makes 1811 trips to McDonalds
- Spends $6881 in vending machines
- Eats 35,138 cookies and 1483 pounds of candy
- Catches 304 colds
- Is involved in 6 motor vehicle accidents,
- Is hospitalized 8 times (men) or 12 times (women)
- Spends 24 years sleeping.
In an Average Lifetime, Tom Heymann
Quote
- Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
- If I had my whole life to live over again, I don’t think I’d have the strength. - Flip Wilson
- Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.
- Erma Bombeck
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The Seven Stages of Man
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. - Richard J. Needham,
The Wit and Wisdom of Richard Needham
Life On Mars
A story making the rounds concerns a Biology I examination in which the students were asked: “Suppose you could take to Mars any of the laboratory equipment used in this course. How would you determine if there was life on Mars?” One student responded: “Ask the inhabitants. Even a negative answer would be significant.” The student got an A.
Carl Sagan, Other Worlds
Resource
Meaning of - C. Swindoll, Growing Strong, p. 216
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