Interactive
Your life in weeks
Assume 4,000 weeks — about 77 years. Enter your age to see how many you've spent, and how many might be left.
The idea isn't new. Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks" and Oliver Burkeman's book Four Thousand Weeks both use the same trick: shrink a lifetime down to a grid small enough to see all at once. It's a cheap trick, and it works anyway — a bar chart of your own mortality is a different kind of argument than a sentence about it.
Most versions of this ask for a birthdate. I wanted one that just asks for your age, so here it is. Each square below is one week. Each row is one year. The filled squares are spent; the rest are not yet decided.
Remaining
Lived
4,000 weeks, 52 per row. Nothing here accounts for the ones that don't get used well.