I am not very old. I realize this. However, I am old enough that I haven't been able to muster up much enthusiasm for my last few birthdays, as they seem to come up more and more rapid fire. Despite this, I wanted to get together and celebrate the passage of time with some friends, so hit upon the idea of celebrating something else instead: The Metric Birthday.
On Saturday, I was (turned? I haven't quite got the verbage down yet) 10,000 days old.
Now, a cursory internet search turns up a few hits for that term (and even more so on the concept of celebrating a N-thousandth day in general), but I can safely claim to have come up with the concept and term completely independent of any other influence...co-discovered if you will. I believe the concept of tracking kilodays rather than years has a lot of advantages, scientifically, over tracking years:
- All kilodays are the same length...there are no leap-kilodays
- The cycle of the earth's spin on its axis affects our lives much more than the cycle of the earth around the sun.
- If we ever venture off into space, years will become irrelevant, but kilodays could persist
- Your kilodays will happen in various seasons, so no need to be stuck as a Christmas/summer/winter birthday forever
- It's a nerdy cool excuse for a party!
Has anyone else celebrated any of their metric birthdays? I'm definitely going to have parties for my daughter's kilodays. If you want to convert from years to days, it's about years/2.74--your 10k-day happens around when you're 27 years, four-and-a-half months.