counting days
Marking calendar squares
Counting days describes the anxious or eager tracking of time until a significant event arrives.
Someone counting days until a wedding, release from prison, or deployment's end experiences each day as a unit to be crossed off: She's counting days until graduation.
The phrase suggests both anticipation and the slow passage of time when waiting matters intensely.
- calendarDate-tracking system
- waitingRemaining in expectation
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- ticking clockClock making sound
tally · marks · weeks · deadline · due date · final stretch · patience · prison · prison sentence · release date · short timer · pregnancy · advent · crossing · marking time · scratches · wall · remaining
- counting activitiestallying, adding up, numbering, enumerating, tabulating
counting daysliving in the moment
Awareness of present experience
mindfulness · timelessness · going with the flow · flow state · carpe diem
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