A friend of mine from many many years ago (whom I haven't talked to in over two years) emailed me on my birthday asking if she remembered correctly that it was my birthday. I was so surprised that she remembered - and she was home in New Jersey for a couple of weeks so we met up for dinner and caught up. In her email, she said to me, 28 is a perfect number, you won't be at a perfect age again for a very long time, so enjoy it! She's a math wizard, I'm not, so obviously I had no idea what a perfect number was. So I looked it up.
Wikipedia (the most trusted source on the internet, hahaha) says, "In mathematics, a perfect number is defined as a positive integer which is the sum of its proper positive divisors, that is, the sum of the positive divisors excluding the number itself. Equivalently, a perfect number is a number that is half the sum of all of its positive divisors (including itself), or σ(n) = 2n."
Uh ..... wuh???!!!! No worries, the examples helped. "The first perfect number is 6, because 1, 2, and 3 are its proper positive divisors, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. Equivalently, the number 6 is equal to half the sum of all its positive divisors: ( 1 + 2 + 3 + 6 ) / 2 = 6. The next perfect number is 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14. This is followed by the perfect numbers 496 and 8128."
Ahhh, that made more sense. So my first perfect age was 6, now I am 28, and I am not living until 496, so I really should enjoy age 28. It may not be a 'perfect' year - but I am determined to not 'waste' it. Almost a month has already passed since my birthday, time is so precious. I want to accomplish great things for God this year!
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