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We have numbers for everything. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years. Dress size, shoe size, ring size. Cholesterol, blood sugar, hormone levels, BMI (TMI, thank you). Steps, miles, mountains climbed, the number of minutes until we get to the guided meditation part of yoga. Age, which starts as soon as we’re old enough to answer the question by holding up fingers, “this many!” How many liters of water we should drink daily. Ounces, cups, table and teaspoons, and no-one really knows why Americans can’t figure out the metric system. Grades, GPAs, credit hours, days until graduation. Account balance, deposits and withdrawals, exchange rates, frequent flyer miles, credit card limits. Paid time off. How much power before the battery runs down. How many hours of sleep we need, how many we lose. We live in a transactional society that can sometimes be so complicated that we want to bring back the barter system. How could we possibly live without gains and losses, weights and measures? Why not focus on the things that can’t be quantified? Friends, and not the number you have on Facebook, the IRL ones who pick you up off the floor when you need it. Belly laughs. Giggle fits. Happiness. No, money still can’t buy it. Joy. The abundance of it isn’t a number. How we feel when we look at him or her or them. Love, endless, limitless, to the moon and back. Limits be damned. Let’s embrace infinity.
Cover Art: Whitney Barnard, The Scribble Studio
“We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.” Jean Guitton
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