A billion.
You’ve heard the word countless times. But can you actually feel what it means?
Try this: if you started counting to a billion, saying one number every second, you wouldn’t finish for over 31 years. That’s longer than it takes to raise a child into adulthood.
And yet, when we hear “a billion dollars,” “a billion views,” or “a billion stars,” it all blurs into the same category: a lot. Our minds don’t distinguish a billion from a million—or even a trillion. They’re all just… big.
But why does the scale slip through our fingers?
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