I'm learning that one million is a very large number. I have decided to try to read one million pages. This started January 1st, so it's sort of a multi-year New Year's resolution of sorts. But I'm just now starting to realize the sheer size of one million anything. Since Jan 1, I have read 6,879 pages. Which sounds like a lot of pages. It's over 1500 a month. But at this pace, it'll take me about 50 years to read a million pages. I will be like 75 before I hit a million. That's a really long New Year's resolution. I'm thinking of going back in time and including the pages I read in previous years. But I don't know how to do that accurately. There's no way I can remember everything I've read. I was an introverted child. I read anything I could get my hands on. So do I count that? And how do I account for things like Anne of Green Gables, which I most certainly read 45 times as a child? 300 pages, 45 times. Do I give myself credit for 13,500 pages just for that? Is retro-counting cheating? Or should this be a from-this-point-forward type of thing? Or should I just give up? Because one million is a whole hell of a lot. At least when it comes to pages. I have a feeling I could spend a million dollars in a lot less than 50 years.

SOTD: BNL, If I Had a Million Dollars

Posted by blueostrich at 9:07 AM
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