Topic : Life

Someone has calculated how a typical lifespan of 70 years is spent. Here is the estimate:

Our Daily Bread, November 25, 1992

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

• 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 ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills, wills. - Richard J. Needham,

The Wit and Wisdom of Richard Needham

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

Meaning of - C. Swindoll, Growing Strong, p. 216