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How You Spend Your Timse
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Life On Mars
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Topic : Life
Typical Lifespan
Someone has calculated how a typical lifespan of 70 years is spent. Here is the estimate:
| Sleep | 23 years | .32.9% |
| Work | 16 years | 22.8% |
| TV | 8 years | 11.4% |
| Eating | 6 years | 8.6% |
| Travel | 6 years | 8.6% |
| Leisure | 4.5 years | 6.5% |
| Illness | 4 years | 5.7% |
| Dressing | 2 years | 2.8% |
| Religion | 0.5 years | 0.7% |
| TOTAL | 70 years | 100% |
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.
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- 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
The Seven Stages of Man
The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. - Richard J. 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.
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Meaning of - C. Swindoll, Growing Strong, p. 216
