Jeff Blogs

Leap year is a constant reminder of the human species recognizing they are not perfect. It’s funny, every day much of our lives are dictated by the calendar and the clock. We have time-based appointments that require us to rush from activity to activity. We gauge our success in how much we are able to accomplish based on a 24-hour day. Very few of us ever stop to question why we let the clock run our very existence.

But clocks and the calendar are not absolutes and they are not infallible. We are reminded of that fact every four years when the calendar needs an extra day inserted in order to make up for the errors in calculation of time passage. The error is further magnified by the fact that it’s not every four years that we get this leap day. The calculation itself shows that we really don’t have a good and effective way to measure time.

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I’m not sure why I am so fascinated with Leap Year and in particular February 29. Maybe it is like when you come upon a traffic accident and no matter how hard you try you just have to look to see what happened as you drive by. (Leap year and specifically leap day is not necessarily a traffic accident but you may be able to draw the same correlation if you thought about it for a minute.) Maybe I am just fascinated at how well the human race can adapt from their failures.

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