Your Life By The Numbers

You might not have given much thought to the fact that most things in your life are tied to a number. In fact, your life can be summed up with numbers. Everything you have encountered in your entire life has had or still has a number attached to it. From the womb to the tomb, you are identified by a series of numbers. This article will prove that numbers are tied to your life in many ways.

Before your birth

Before you were born, your life began with numbers. Not all the numbers were yours, but they were related to you in some way. Your conception had more to do with your parents than with you. Then your gestation period of nine months or 38–42 weeks became your number.

Birth certificate

Your first official numbers included the date and time of your birth, along with your weight and length. The nurse put an identification band around your ankle with your numbers on it.

Then you were issued a birth certificate. Babies now get a social security number before they leave the hospital. That number is necessary for many things, especially for social security benefits and retirement purposes.

Social security card

School numbers

When you were in school, you received numbers on your tests. When you graduated, you knew what your Grade Point Average (GPA) was.

Employee number

When you g0t a job, you were given an employee number for your records. You have used those numbers every year to file taxes. Therefore, those numbers on your pay stub are important.

Bank numbers

You have used your bank number to deposit checks, make withdrawals, and perhaps to have gotten a loan.

Credit card

When you began working, you probably got your first credit card. When you filled out the application, you had to list information with numbers you had accumulated up to that time in your life.

Your credit card was mailed to your home address, which consisted of a house or apartment number with a regular five-digit ZIP code and an additional four-digit number that most businesses use.

After you received your credit card in the mail, you had to activate it before you could use it. You were required to use your own telephone, which consists of an area code and a seven-digit number.

Credit report

Once you started using your credit card, financial records were kept on your credit report. Therefore, you have a credit score that changes over time.

Numbers associated with death

This is not to be morbid because we all will die one day. When someone dies in the hospital, the first thing the doctor or nurse will do is to call out the time of death.

The funeral will be on a certain date and time. The date will be in the newspapers along with the obituary that will have dates. The date will also be on the front of your funeral bulletin, if there is one. The date of your birth and your death will be your tombstone with a dash in between to let others know when you lived.

Required Numbers

There are many more required numbers tied to everyone's life.

• Everyone needs a driver's license with a lot of numbers, depending on where they live.
• No matter which branch of the military someone enlists in, a number is assigned to that person.
• There is a number on everybody's voter registration card.
• Physicians keep medical files that contain numbers to keep patients healthy.
• People who fish and hunt must have valid licenses with numbers.
• Membership cards to a gym, library, museum, park, and other organizations have numbers.
• No one can use an automatic teller machine number (ATM) without the correct numbers.
• Insurance policies have numbers.
• Everyone who plays the lottery does so with numbers.
• Cooking requires measurements.
• Numbers must be punched in to use the microwave.
• You can't weigh yourself without seeing a number on the scale.

The headline

With all those examples, you can see that the headline is correct: "Your Life Is By the Numbers."