A mirror, not a lecture
Pick a year.
See what it asks of you.
Every year arrives on schedule — future ones with their days still empty, past ones already written. What fills a future year is the only part that's yours. Point the machine at a year. Look at it honestly.
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Point it at a year
The future gets a plan. The past gets a distance. Both get an animal. Results update as you go.
The slider flies forward. For the past, type the year — or use the written years below.
2050 is coming either way.
If you stay consistent
Same calendar. Filled on purpose.
If you lay off
Same calendar. It fills itself.
The world then
A snapshot, checked by hand.
Between then and you
The distance, in people.
The wheel of years
Twelve animals, one cycle, turning since before any year on this page. Your picked year is lit.
Still your year?
Your first reaction to the numbers is information too. Be honest with it.
Or go the other way
The written years. Tap one and the machine turns around — distance, generations, and what the world looked like then.
Each written year also has its own page: 1000 BC · Year 1 · 500 · 1000 · 1500 · 1750 · 1900 · 2000
How it works
1 — Pick
Choose any year — one that's still coming, or one that's already written. A milestone, a turning point, a year that scares you a little.
2 — Look
Forward, the page counts days, Mondays, summers and what your own pace adds up to. Backward, it counts generations and lifetimes. Every year also gets its zodiac animal.
3 — Decide
The past is fixed and the future is filling. The only unwritten year is the one you're standing in. That's the whole site.