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Perspective

Mark Olmsted
1 min readJan 27, 2020

Assuming each person on the planet–

if they really had to–

could point to a

best day,

and a worst day

of their entire life;

and within that day,

point to the best

or worst hour;

and within that hour,

point to the best

or worst minute;

and within that minute,

point to the best

or worst

second;

if you divide all the adults

on the planet

by the 22,000 days of

an average life span,

you will discover that

in all mathematical

likelihood,

every single second

of every single day

is almost certainly

the best

or worst

moment

of someone’s entire life,

somewhere in

the world.

MCO 2019

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Mark Olmsted
Mark Olmsted

Written by Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.

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