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In an Average Lifetime

Consider a few excerpts from Tom Heymann's book, In An Average Lifetime. Mr. Heymann has analyzed several aspects of life, and has calculated what an individual does in a typical lifetime. The average American individual:

* spends three years in business meetings
* spends 13 years watching television
* spends $89,281 on food
* consumes 109,354 pounds of food
* makes 1811 trips to McDonalds
* spends $6,881 in vending machines
* eats 35,138 cookies and 1,483 pounds of candy
* catches 304 colds
* is involved in six motor vehicle accidents
* is hospitalized eight times (men) or twelve times (women)
* spends 24 years sleeping

With all of this activity, or lack thereof, it is important to remember that life is brief at best. Are we doing the really important things with the time we have been given?

"Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away" (James 4:14).