How many times, over how long?
"A few times a year" is hard to picture. Pick a period and the arithmetic does the rest — including what changes if you meet once more each year.
It multiplies. That is all. You choose how often you meet now, how long a period to look at, and what the other number would be — and it tells you the difference. There is no claim here about how often anyone should see anyone.
The period is yours to pick for the same reason: a figure counted "for the rest of a life" would need an assumption nobody can make for you, and the arithmetic does not need it. Fifteen years is a long enough stretch to be worth looking at on its own.
Without an average visit length it compares the number of meetings only. Days together appear once you fill that in — and a weekend is not two days of company, so put in what the visit really is.
- Why no "meetings left in a lifetime"?
- Because that needs an assumption about how long someone lives, and this page will not make one. Pick the period you want to think about instead.
- Why does one extra visit change so much?
- Because it multiplies across the whole period. Going from three to four a year is a third more, every year, for as long as you counted.
- Should I fill in the visit length?
- Only if it helps. Without it the page compares counts, which is the honest comparison when a "visit" means anything from lunch to a week.
- Is this supposed to make me feel bad?
- No. It is a multiplication with no opinion attached. What the numbers mean is yours to decide.