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Sixty | Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers | Chris Crawford

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I try to combat the natural tendency to deny one’s mortality. I sometimes ask myself, “What would happen if I were to die tomorrow? Am I ready?” I have a pair of vases that I use to remind myself that my days are not limitless: I have had these jars for nearly ten years. There are exactly 3652 beads of each color: one for each day of a decade. The yellow beads at the bottom of the larger vase represent my first ten years of life; the black beads represent my teen years; green for my twenties, orange for my thirties, blue for my forties, and red for my fifties. Yes, the blue layer is very thin but that’s because the vase is wider where the blue beads are. In the smaller vase, the yellow beads represent my sixties and the orange beads represent my seventies. I figure that I shall be productive until my 80th birthday. Therefore, the beads in the smaller jar represent all the days that I have left to finish everything that I want to do in my life. Each morning, I take one bead from the sma

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