A university professor is encouraging a student to get down and do some in-depth, super-serious Bible study, telling him that an hour on Sunday isn't enough. He admonished him, saying, "Three hours of continuous study, i. e. at one sitting, is a good start."
The student objected, saying, "I don't have time."
Not to be put off, the professor asks him to keep a record of how much time he spends on Facebook and other social media for one week, then come back and tell him he doesn't have the time.
I thought about that challenge and remembered a 2016 study I'd read and saved a few months ago, but before you read and think about it, beware for reasons that will be evident. The stats are most likely worse today in 2021.
The lifespan of the average person is 78 years and in that average lifetime you will spend:
11,762 days looking at a digital screen which equals 41% of your life.
8, 521 days sitting which equals 29.7% of your life.
1,951 days socializing with others which equals 6.8% of your life.
98 days exercising which equals 0.69% of your life.
1.5 years looking for lost items.
6 years waiting in lines.
You will receive 1,000 advertising messages a day.
In that amount of time, you could run the circumference of the earth 2.2 times.
Every day is precious; why waste it on things that are of little value? Most live their lives committing murder; just killing time.
The moral? Psalm 90:12.
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