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This is Your (Short) Life Told in Jelly Beans

Hopefully you don’t feel like time is slipping away. It is how you use your finite time that counts!
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We have a finite amount of time to live, as the video below, by Buzzfeed’s ze frank, explains through the use of jelly beans.

The video begins with 28,835 jelly beans, each representing one day. The total represents the average human life. The jelly beans disappear as milestones are reached in life. 

So how does this make you feel? Hopefully you don’t feel like time is slipping away. It is how you use your finite time that counts!

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