The book · Tomislav Kozacinski
Counting
what remains.
A meditation on the only currency we have.
About the book
I’ll tell you
how it ends.
Time is the only thing we truly own, and it’s easy to spend it without noticing. The book comes back to seven questions, asked daily.
That’s the ending. Getting there took me twenty years, and knowing the answer hasn’t always meant living by it.
Counting what remains is about that gap: hearing “life is short,” agreeing with it, and carrying on as though there will always be more time.
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What it
cost me.
A month of my life sold for fifty dollars. A last conversation I didn’t know was one. A count of my remaining summers that fits on a Post-it.
Those are some of the experiences behind this book. “Life is short” was something I’d heard a thousand times. It took longer to think seriously about how I was spending mine.
I can give you the conclusion in a few sentences. The book tells the longer story of getting there, including what it cost along the way.
Your life receipt
Where does
the time go?
The back cover has a receipt on it. School, work, the commute, social media, weekends—and the things left for “someday.”
It adds up to one life. I use that receipt as a way to look at where the time goes, including the parts we don’t usually count.
The question underneath it is simple: once you count what remains, is it worth your time?