Life, is all about numbers, why? It's about the numbers of subscribers, likes, retweets, reposts, smiles, followers, friends, grades, and weight. Numbers, numbers numbers. Some people it's about phone numbers, or guys, or girls, or anything in between, or drinks, cigarettes, it's all numbers! Number of practices, boards broken, goals, baskets, touchdowns, home runs, strokes, our whole life revolves around numbers.
The numbers control us. 365 days in a year, 52 weeks in a year, 7 days in a week, 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds for every minute, 31,536,000 seconds in a year. Is that really how we should spend our lives? Counting down every second of every minute, every minute of every hour, every hour of every day, every day in a week, every week in a year, every year of our life? We shouldn't, just like we shouldn't count every like on every post, every view on every video, every comment, every follow or subscriber, every read on every book, or every number on that scale.
The numbers do NOT define us. We are people, not numbers. Don't let yourself look at the numbers and decide that is how much you are worth. You are worth more than your numbers. So take some time and forget about those numbers every once in a while. Have some time of your own. You've earned it, you deserve to have your own time, we all do. So breathe and don't shed those tears you feel building up. Put your numbers away and do what you don't think you can. Throw those numbers away even if you do it for a moment. The numbers don't matter so don't let it hold power. Spend time with the people who don't care about the numbers and let yourself forget that they exist too.
They are just numbers after all, with one click, or stroke of the eraser, or even two steps they aren't there anymore. They may be in your head, but even then you can distract yourself from the numbers and just get up and dance the numbers away. In other words, live a little and don't let your numbers lead your life, let you take care of that.
I know the numbers run my life even when I write. I glance at that word count every 5 seconds. I let many numbers define my life, and I too need to learn to forget about them. Perhaps one day I will learn too. Until then I'll try to forget about the numbers and spend time with the people I know don't care about the numbers. whether it be 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 or 236. They don't care and one day maybe I will learn not to care as well. Until then all we can do is try to forget.
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