One class period: 4500 seconds
One episode of the TV series we’re currently watching: 2820 seconds
Two episodes: 5640 seconds
Project Hail Mary film: 9360 seconds
Time my child spent on his phone, average, per day, during March Break: 38,040 seconds
Time it took me to read President Trump’s post threatening to destroy Iran: approximately 18 seconds

Time remaining when Trump called off his plan to obliterate Iran: 5400 seconds

What would you do if you had 5400 seconds to live?
Hug your children? Read a book? 
Cook dinner? Cry?
Send a text? Doomscroll on TikTok?
Check to see if the crocus on the corner in the shade had bloomed yet?
Look at the moon and think of the astronauts?
Try to sleep? Maybe melatonin would help?
Hold your lover? Stroke their body one last time?
Take a bath? Use the fancy soap?

Write to your Congressperson? 
Wish you had voted? Or hadn’t voted?
Demonstrate? Protest?

Go to your church – or synagogue – or mosque?
Pray?

“A whole civilization* will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
*93 million people

For reference:
Canada’s population: 41.5 million
Mexico’s population: 132 million
Venezuela’s population: ≅30 million
Cuba’s population: ≅10 million

Today, a madman threatened to murder 93 million people because of where they live.

He is still in power.