25% and almost there

Isn’t it odd how we try and change the world to fit our own needs. It was in a Terry Pratchett book that one of his characters (Mort) said, “I’m a quarter of the way through, which is almost a third and that’s practically a half so I’m nearly done.”

I’m going on holiday soon and I’ve started the process of adjusting time to suit my needs. This begins with not counting the week you’re in as part of your countdown. Quickly we progress to using “working days” but soon even this makes the event seem too far away, so I’m now down to measuring specific days of the week and that currently stands at 2 Mondays one of which is a bank holiday so probably doesn’t count. The truth is that it is still 20 days away but that is simply far too long to wait.

Perhaps Terry Pratchett’s trolls have the right counting method; one, two, lots, many. Holidays would always be just around the corner.

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