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90% of the Time You'll Spend With Your Parents is Over

Updated: Aug 25, 2023

By age 18, once you graduate high school and leave home for college, 90% of the time you'll spend with your parents is over.


"You probably never thought about this, but around 90% of the time that you will have spent with your parents was done from the ages of 0 to 18." — Donn Felker


Before you know it, those people we call parents — who raised us, loved us during the good and bad times, and brought us into this world — will be gone. The point of this fact is not to be depressed by it; it’s to understand it so that we can spend more QUALITY time with our parents!



And make sure to check out this blog post for great visuals of time and how many events you have left in your life, i.e. a wake-up call to cherish your friends and loved ones and to not WASTE a minute of your most important asset, TIME! https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html




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