Time Flies

[Edge]

How does time go so fast? As a kid adults tell you a lot of things that turn out not to be true (i.e. Easter bunny, Santa, etc.) but the one thing they said that is sooooooooo true is as you get older time goes faster. It's not even funny. It seems like it was just Xmas and we're already going into May this week. Just wondering if anyone feels the same and if they have a way to slow down time (especially the weekends 🙂.

 

[TMF Jeff]

I read an article about this once, and they said the reason time seems to move faster as we get older is because we have more to compare it to.

In other words, when you're 8 years old the summer seems to last forever because those three months are 1/32 of your entire life.

When you're 32, suddenly it takes an entire year to make up 1/32 of your life, and give you the equivalent feeling of a lot of time having passed.

 

[PhilipRJ_UK]

When I reached 20, it felt as though time started to speed up, and now, the weeks and months seem to fly by as though God has his finger on the fast-forward button. I can hardly believe it's been three years since I left college and seven since I finished school. The strange thing is that all the memories I have seem to be so vivid, as though they only happened yesterday.

 

[PiedPiper]

I read an article about this once, and they said the reason time seems to move faster as we get older is because we have more to compare it to.

In other words, when you're 8 years old the summer seems to last forever because those three months are 1/32 of your entire life.

Okay,... Jeff has settled this one right off the bat,... he said exactly what I was going to say. But now the fun part,.... when you hit about 50-55, time goes into warp drive.

 

[milagros317]

I read an article about this once, and they said the reason time seems to move faster as we get older is because we have more to compare it to.

In other words, when you're 8 years old the summer seems to last forever because those three months are 1/32 of your entire life.

When you're 32, suddenly it takes an entire year to make up 1/32 of your life, and give you the equivalent feeling of a lot of time having passed.

And the process goes on. My mother is 91 and recently told me, "I can't believe it's 2013 already. Didn't we just have the big celebration for the new millennium?"

 

[WorkInProgress]

I also feel as if we just entered the new millennium. (I'm 51.)

 

[C.A.B.]

I think the feeling that time speeds up as we grow older is that, as we age and become beaten up and well-used, we just make more assumptions and gloss over things more and more in daily life - in other words, we take note of less and less because we don't care.

When you are a youngster, and the world is new and unimaginably big, you take in information like a hungry sponge and that seems to draw time out... ever been restless in grade school and the clock is slow as molasses?

If you want to have that feeling again, go down to your local Department of Motor Vehicles to renew your license... time will slow to an agonizing crawl.

 

[Bugman]

Okay,... Jeff has settled this one right off the bat,... he said exactly what I was going to say. But now the fun part,.... when you hit about 50-55, time goes into warp drive.

Quoted for truth.

 

[Bugman]

When you are a youngster, and the world is new and unimaginably big, you take in information like a hungry sponge and that seems to draw time out... ever been restless in grade school and the clock is slow as molasses?

If you want to have that feeling again, go down to your local Department of Motor Vehicles to renew your license... time will slow to an agonizing crawl.

Ha! Ain't that the truth! Or make an appointment with a doctor or dentist, sit in the waiting room, then go to the exam room and wait some more.

 

[EBunbury]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

 

[Bugman]

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

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