I recently saw the total number of hours I spent playing a particular online video game between the ages of twelve and fifteen. It was a number I’d hoped never to see, and it was somewhere close to 1600.

I made some money playing that video game. I was good at it. I won’t tell you how much it was, but I’ve done the math and it comes out to somewhere around the minimum wage at the time I played, so I can’t feel too bad about the time wasted. A lot of people spend that sort of time working for that kind of money at some point. I was paid to play video games, eat ball park hot dogs and watch comedy central presents before I was even old enough to get a real summer job.

Still, that’s sixty-six days gone, more than a fifth of a year. Assuming I make it to eighty, that’s a quarter of a percent of my lifetime devoted to a video game, and just one, so if you add all the rest I’m sure it’s a whole point. Sleep is another 33% of my life right off the bat. Now I’m 34% accounted for. If I had to guess, television would put me at 38%, and so I have 62% left to work with, assuming I never work again.

62% of a full day is 15.36 hours left after I’ve slept, watched tv and played video games. So here is how I’d like to spend the other 15.36 hours of my day for the rest of my life:

One hour writing.

Forty-five minutes reading.

One hour of sex.

Two hours at meal, and at least one and a quarter of those hours should be with friends or family.

One additional hour of snuggling, cuddling, talking, and generally being in love on a couch or something similar.

One hour with my family, in person or on the phone.

One hour of travel.

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Three hours of adventure, of places I’ve never seen before, of trying new things and expanding my comfort zone.

One hour of watching people, or meeting new ones.

Two hours of exercise. But let’s call it training for the sake of Sports Geek.

I won’t plan the last hour and change.

An hour equals a little over 4% of your lifetime if you use it every day, no matter how old you live to be. If I make it to 80, that’s 3.2 years I’ll have spent having sex, writing, snuggling, with my family, traveling, watching people. 6.4 years I’ll have spent in the gym and another six eating. 2.4 years reading. 9.6 years adventuring. A decade of new things, in eight decades of existence.

I think that if I can find the right person to adventure with me, this breakdown won’t be so bad, even with the percentage point or two I’ve already wasted. I can look at these numbers and say, yes that’s a good life, without ever knowing how the writing turned out.

Someone must have liked it though, since work never makes an appearance.

Could you imagine? 9 to 5? Think about it, run the numbers and put it in. Your whole life disappears. Adjusted for the weekends and the time spent not working or in school (ages 0-6 and 70-80) that’s 4.6 hours, or 19% of your life gone up front.

I can justify working if the money earned can buy a more fulfilling but equal time as you spent earning it. So, if the money I make from playing a video game for 66 days can give me a better 66 days than I might’ve had otherwise then sure, it’s worth it.

But 19%? That’s fifteen years, an entire childhood. Good luck buying that back.