What do you want to count down to?

National Countdown Day is dedicated to celebrating all different types of things to count down to. You can celebrate any range of things on this day. Look at the calendar and see 3…2…1. After all, another name for National Countdown Day is #321Day.

Countdowns can happen anywhere at any time. They are numerals in reverse order to zero, and is used as an act of counting down the number of seconds that remain before something that is scheduled to happen. A countdown is “a period of time before an important or special event,” according to Google, but countdowns happen during our normal lives, too!

There are countdowns like ones you set that won’t happen for years and there are countdowns that happen in the next hour, minute, even second.

Who hasn’t watched in anticipation while the microwave counts down to dinner time? You can also find a timer counting down on TV each series episode or movie countdowns until 00:00:00 for the next episode or movie to play. When you are waiting for a class to end, that’s a countdown! Too bad this celebration is happening on a Sunday this year!

Fritz Lang, an Austrian filmmaker nearly 100 years ago, created countdowns not for its purpose to precisely synchronize time with an event, but for its purpose was to create suspense. NASA later used his creation to launch rockets at a precise time. (www.atlasobscura.)

To celebrate National Countdown Day you can easily make up tiny scenarios to count down to, do your daily actions but count down until they end, start a countdown to something significant to you, and or just countdown saying  “ 3…2…1…IT’S NATIONAL COUNTDOWN DAY!”