How Would Your Life Be Different If You Didn't Measure It In Years?

On Heidegger, Time, and Temporality

A year is a unit of time that makes sense for the sake of planning and convention and that is also tied to a pattern in the cosmos—the time it takes the earth to complete its cycle around the sun. But, as Heidegger claims, it’s also a distraction, existentially speaking, from the singularity and finitude of my own life. (If we knew when we were going to…