An average person has 962 months to live.
That’s 80 years and few months.
Remaining months compare to years seem like less time to live.
For example, I am 43 and look forward to live a healthy life of 100 years.
I still have 57 years to live.
A long life is ahead of me.
It’s also true that I only have 684 months remaining.
Now, I have such a short life.
A month, as an integer is a winner against year in mathematical comparison.
But mathematics in our mind work in a different way.
We have in-built conversion where one year is 12 months.
The perspective change when you shift countdown from once a year to monthly.
My mind multiplies 57 years with 12 but never gives me the result.
So, it creates an illusion that I always have lot of time.
But I don’t.
Time feels even less when I calculate remaining number of days.
I have only 20520 days.
Now the countdown is daily.
Our time is limited.
The illusion of more time is due to unknown multiplication.