Moving through life considering only numbers is a little scary. When numbers are heard many times, it can only generate comments like, "Isn't she too old to wear her hair like that?", or "My goodness! I thought she was dead." or "I am sure she is too old to enjoy that." So numbers become the motivating factor for everything. It is tricky to stay out of that mindset when so many others pursue it actively.
And there's always the statistics so often quoted giving us weighted numbers of so many people who have rejected something, implying that I, too, must not give it another thought. Such thinking requires returning to values and logical thinking on my own....all because of numbers.
Time, on the other hand, is a Divine gift which enables us to have an endless variety of goals, pursuits, and situations. The writer of Ecclesiastes presents a very realistic view of time and how it spells out in every life...some good things, and some not so good. "He has made everything appropriate in its time" expresses it well. No numbers mentioned; no age limitations.
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