Off-Topic: How did it get to be 2016?

12/28/2015 9:46:44 PM

With the new year nearly here, I was sitting back and thinking about the passage of time today. With the arrival of 2016, we really are now on the downward slope toward 2020, which is so strange to me. The '90s seem both close and immensely far away at the same time. It seems like, from 2005 to 2015, the years were placed in an accelerator of some sort and just flew by.

Anyway, just getting a bit philosophical. Bottom line: Time is strange.

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crazyjoe

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9 years ago

Tume marches on...very quickly sometimes

crazyjoe

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9 years ago

Time...dam sausage fangers

jackslash

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9 years ago

To me, the 1970's seem recent. How did I go from being a young man to an old man?

vincemichaels

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9 years ago

jackslash, good point, then again, i did a sizable amount of drugs, so my memory is suspect. 2020. Bring it !!

motorhead

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9 years ago

The Y2K panic. We all thought the world as we know it might come to a stop. It does seem like yesterday.

mjx01

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9 years ago

Time is a blur anymore. I can't even tell the days apart anymore. Its just work, sleep, repeat.

Clubber

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9 years ago

As a child of the 40's, I was told time speeds up as one gets older. I can vouch for that these days. My years are getting to seem like months used to be 60 years ago! :)

I bet they are weeks to sc! :)

twentyfive

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9 years ago

So true, as you get older your perception of time changes and you start to feel like there is too little of it.

shadowcat

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9 years ago

I just wonder how much of it is left.

crazyjoe

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9 years ago

Shit

tumblingdice

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9 years ago

Mr. Fox,allow time and tide to work for your benefit.

Papi_Chulo

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9 years ago

Yeah; it’s a getting-older thing – I remember back in elementary school a school-year seemed like a lifetime – now a calendar-year seems like a few weeks.

One could argue that besides our health; time is the next most precious resource we have and perhaps we should be more cognizant of how quickly it does go by and focus on making the most of it rather than lamenting how quickly it goes by.