I remember seeing some posts at the beginning of June about how we've reached the halfway point of the year.
It's obviously wrong, though. There are twelve months in a year, which means the beginning of the sixth month is not the halfway point, but rather, the ending. Meaning, today. Tonight. Or is it tomorrow? Midnight, the exact point when 30 June becomes 1 July?
I decided to look it up on Google. No, it's actually 2 July. The 183rd day of the year. Well, every year has 365 days, and half of that number is 182.5, so the halfway point actually happens at noon this coming Thursday.
But then, isn't a year technically 365 days, plus a quarter of a day, long? Isn't this why we have leap years, to compensate for that fraction, four quarters adding up to an extra day?
And then, we don't all start at the same point in time, meaning we all have a different halfway point of the year, depending on where we stand at a point in time.
Not to mention the whole halfway point thing is really based on an arbitrarily chosen point in time that we all somehow universally agreed to be the start of a full revolution of this planet we're in around the sun. Nothing cosmically special happens at the start, as far as I know.
So what's the point of all this?
Well, I suppose it's a good point as any to take stock of where we've been and how much we have yet to go through. But that supposes everything happens within what we call a "year"... and I just gave myself another headache, so never mind.
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