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Edel Coffey: As time slips through our fingers, let’s enjoy what we have left

When you see your existence laid out in a life calendar, it concentrates the mind in a big way

Life calendars have their uses, but they are also often an unwelcome reminder of the finite nature of one’s existence

I came across a calendar online a few weeks ago, one of those targeted Instagram ads that makes you question why the Algorithm concluded that this was the perfect message for you today.

The calendar was called the “life calendar”, because it has hundreds of tiny boxes on it representing your life in weeks. But wait: it gets better. If you enter your date of birth, the calendar automatically blacks out how many weeks of ...