The Official Symbol of Alexandrino
The Bottomless Hourglass started as two mirrored 7s. It's not a logo. It's how I move through every day of my life, and it's a reminder anyone can carry: time is running out whether you act on it or not.
It's a 7, and then another 7 mirrored directly on top of it. Two 7s, stacked and flipped, and what comes out the other side is a shape that looks exactly like an hourglass with no bottom. Simple to draw. Not simple to live by.
It's drawn as one connected shape, two mirrored angles meeting at a center point, open at the bottom where a real hourglass would seal shut. Nothing stops at the bottom. Not for me, not for anybody who actually lives this way.
An hourglass with no bottom can't hold time in place. It can only let it fall through. That's the whole idea. Move like time is running out, because it is. It's a quality most people lack, you have to be born with it or choose to build it. Speed isn't really the hard part. The hard part is not moving so fast that you miss being present for any of it. That's still something I'm working on myself.
Each day you get 86,400 grains of sand. One falls every second, whether you're paying attention or not. Sand falls, but you can't flip the same sand tomorrow. There's no bottom to catch it and reset the count for you, it just keeps falling through, and tomorrow's 86,400 are a fresh set, not the same grains coming back around. I think about that constantly. It's why I can't sit still on anything I actually care about.
It's about consistency, week in and week out. You only get 52 of them a year. No do-overs on the ones you waste. It's about putting your present self first. You can't build a future without actually living in the present, the two aren't in competition, the present is the only place the future ever gets built from. And most of all, this whole thing is proof that gratitude has to be your greatest virtue. You don't get time back. The least you can do is be grateful for the time you're spending right now.
This connects straight back to the principle behind it: Better Tomorrow, Built Today. Every grain that falls becomes part of today, whether you used it well or not. There's no bottom chamber catching what you wasted. It's just gone, and the next grain is already falling.
This isn't just how I live. It's how I think everyone should. Time doesn't wait on anybody, and the people who actually understand that are the ones who end up building something that lasts. The Bottomless Hourglass is a standard, not a personal thing. 86,400 grains a day. Watch every one of them fall.
I made the Bottomless Hourglass. It's the symbol of Alexandrino, and it shows up in every journal entry, the SEBIV POT, every corner of everything I build. SEBIV.com is the official source for it, but it's not meant to stay mine. It's meant to be lived by anyone who picks it up.
Join me.