Your life in weeks
Each row is one year. Each square is one week. Fill in your birth date and see the weeks behind you and the weeks still open. It isn't meant to scare you. It's meant to make this week feel like it counts.
- Weeks lived
- 0
- Age
- 0
- Squares still open
- 0
- Grid filled
- 0%
Your birth date stays in this browser: it is not sent to us and not stored. The number of rows is your choice, not a prediction of anything. Each row runs from one birthday to the next in 52 squares; a year is 52 weeks and a day or two, so the grid is close, not exact.
A printable poster of your grid, sized for a wall, with space to mark the weeks that mattered. Newsletter subscribers hear first.
Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.17 (trans. George Long) · read it in the source ↗
Keeping the end in view is an old habit. The Stoics wrote about it often, and "memento mori" became its best-known tag, though the two words are not in the passage usually cited for them. We traced it in Older Than You Think, and gathered what the Stoics actually wrote about fear of dying in Your fears, answered by the Stoics.
Three ways to use your grid
- Pick one thing to do this week that you would be glad, in a year, to have started.
- Count the weeks until something you keep postponing. The number is often smaller than it feels.
- Look again in a month. One more square will be filled; ask what went into it.
If thinking about time feels heavy right now, you don't have to carry it alone. findahelpline.com lists free, confidential helplines in many countries.