What's the Deal with Numbers Anyway?
Remembering my first short film
IT’S FEBRUARY! It’s my birthday month, and I can’t help but get excited by the word FEBRUARY. I was born on my mom’s birthday, February 10th. This made us feel like we were mother-daughter soul twins. We loved it.
Ah, birthdays. 🥳 I enjoy the celebration of it, the balloons of it, the YIPPEEE I’M ALIVE of it. Even now, being somewhere in the middle of my life, I still love it as much as I did when I was six.
It gets me thinking about numbers. When did we start giving ourselves numbers? When did we start counting the days? When humans began, I’m guessing we mostly focused on surviving and less on what number we were turning. This makes me think of the first short film I ever directed, Numbers, my Twilight Zoney take on the question, “What if numbers didn’t exist?” In case you missed it, I’m posting it here.
Hope you enjoy it! I also hope you don’t worry too much about what number you are. You’re here. That’s the main thing.