3,129,462,000 Beats

Breakfast: Nothing.
Lunch: Half a banana.
Dinner: Cheese, perogies, Snapple.

Mr. Borland said todaythat the average number of heart beats in the lifetime of any mammal is approximately the same. So, like a mouse, whose heart beats about two-hundred times a minute, dies much faster than a human, whose heart beats about eighty times a minute. I've just been thinking, since then, that we only have so many heart beats. It's like a countdown and it seems foolish to waste them worrying or being stressed. You think of life and time as being this infinite thing. There are times when you want time to move faster. You want to waste time because of boredom or some unpleasant situation! For me at least, when I think about time being limited (as personified by a specific number of heart beats) I can't even imagine wanting to waste time. There is so much to do, to see, to experience and we've so little time to do it.

EDIT: I have just recently been informed, by reliable sources, that Mr. Borland's description of mammal heart beats is greatly exaggereated. Yes, there is a correlation between heart rate and life span, but it is not a 1 to 1 correlation like he made it sound. That only makes sense mathematically. A shrew's heart would have to beat 2800 times a minute to reach the 3 billion mark in its average lifespan. Not 200.

I wonder how this affects my way of thinking.