- In 525,600 minutes
In 8760 hours
In 365 days
In 52 weeks
In 12 months
In 1 year
In Daylights
In Sunsets
In Midnights
In Cups of Coffee
In inches
In miles
In laughter
In strife
How do you measure a year?
If you had one year to live, how would you live? Would you go outside, run in the rain and sky, laughter to your heart’s content and just live life to its fullest? Would you sit inside, watching those more fortunate then you, wasting what little time you had remaining?
Hikage Rane had to make that decision. For 19 years she had struggled to live, to wake up each morning. Today, her doctor had inform her that they had done all they can and that she had at best, one year to live.
Her father had been furious. Here he was, the richest man in the entire city and nothing could help his only daughter. For Hikage, it crushed her. Hikage had always been a shy girl. The death of her mother at an early age and her sickness made her fearful of people.
So she sat, in a hospital bed looking out the window watching the birds fly away in the distance. Her daily checkup had just finished and like usual nothing had improved. Hikage wondered what she would do next. One year to live… and so many things left undone.
“Hmm, pretty girls like you shouldn’t be moping like that.”
Hikage looked up to see a boy her age with bright green eyes smiling at her. He waved his hand and a rose appeared. “I’m Kait,” he said, offering the rose to her. “So… who are you?”
Hikage had no idea that this boy was going to change her whole outlook on life.