If all goes well, a central European has around 1,000 months to live. It is a nice, round and plausible number. You divide 1,000 by 12 and get 83.333333333333333… Jahre.
And that is certainly a nice age, isn’t it?
And then I remember my time as “W18″ serving my compulsory time with the German Armed Forces. Many of us had a measuring tape for the last 150 days. Each day, one centimetre got cut off – and the shorter the measuring tape was, the happier the (mostly involuntary) soldier.
Now let us assume each citizen got a one-metre-long measuring tape at the moment of his or her birth. And on each first of a month, one millimetre is cut off.
Well, my personal measuring tape would already be quite short. But then, the measuring tape would perhaps serve to remind us of how we should show more responsible behaviour with respect to our lives.
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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