Imagine every day of your life as a single grain of sand.
One year is 365 grains. A decade is 3,650. A lifetime of roughly 82 years comes to about 30,000.
Now pour those grains into an hourglass. Each grain represents one day, and all 30,000 represent an entire lifetime.
So how much sand is that?
Sand grains vary in size and weight, but suppose each one weighs 0.2 milligrams. Thirty thousand grains would weigh just six grams.
A single day can feel like a long time while you’re living it. Yet an entire lifetime, with every day represented by its own grain of sand, becomes something you could hold in the palm of your hand.
The exact weight isn’t the point. It’s seeing something as enormous as a lifetime become small enough to hold.
Thirty thousand days.
Today is one of them.