How do you measure a year in a life?

Note: I don't know the reference for the following verses (which Melissa included in the wonderful book she gave me before I flew across the ocean), but in my head, they're always set to music, so I have a feeling that they're probably from a song. Forgive the lack of credits...
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Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

How do you measure, measure a year?

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In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights,

in cups of coffee, in inches, in miles,

in laughter, in strife

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In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes

How do you measure a year in a life?

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How about love?

Measure in love

Seasons of love

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A couple weeks ago, during a student debate at school, while I was serving as the "English Doctor," I penned the lines below, inspired by the poem/song above.
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How do you measure a year in a life?
In sunsets,
in rainstorms,
in laughter,
in tears,
in longings,
in memories,
in fever dreams,
in lessons,
in empty ink pens,
in new clothes,
in power outages,
in tea times,
in hot mugs of sweet milk,
in mistakes,
in happy faces,
in groundnuts shelled,
in prayers,
in debates,
in tan lines,
in dances,
in trips to Town,
in visits to friends,
in journals filled,
in long distance phone calls,
in shooting stars,
in cloudy nights,
in new vocabulary,
in picked accents,
in hugs,
in sweets,
in fried grasshoppers,
in late nights,
in tired mornings,
in glass bottles of soda,
in steps,
in plans,
in burial rites,
in introduction ceremonies,
in progress reports,
in pda statements,
in visa applications,
in taxi rides,
in cooking lessons,
in welcomes,
in departures,
in verse,
in letters,
in exams marked,
in snaps,
in sunny days,
in habits formed,
in laundry washed,
in hair styles,
in callouses formed,
in cobbled shoes,
in utensils cleaned,
in bars of soap,
in litres of water,
in generosity,
in gratitude.