People say year like a year is a long time.
This year, this past year, all year, a whole year,
almost as if a year is a long time.
A day is a long time. A week is a long time.
But 52.143 weeks is hardly a long time.
You could fritter away an entire hour,
drinking sugar water and watching TV.
That's a long time.
But a year spent the same is gone in an instant.
Still, people measure their life in years.
I could say I'm:
18 years old. Or,
6570 days old. Or,
156780 hours old. Or,
9460800 minutes old. Or,
567648000 seconds old. Or,
567648000000 milliseconds old.
Really, that's the only way to get across
that a wasted year is not a long time.
We should measure in wasted milliseconds.