Isn’t it crazy how fast time goes?
I remember being in grade school and a day seemed like it lasted a month.
Now I get up on Monday, go to bed Monday night, wake up the next morning and it’s Thursday! I look at the calendar and say damn, September is already over?
It’s goes so fast now if I’m making plans to do something “significant” on the weekend I plan to do it next week and not the weekend coming up because it will be here too soon.
Does this only get worse the older you get?
"Isn’t it crazy how fast time goes?"
would you ask that question during the middle of january when the clock is turned back an hour, snow and ice are all over everywhere outside, and the temperatures are 15 degrees with a wind chill of zero and the winds are gusting at 20 mph?
Stephen King wrote a short story about this same perceived phenomenon.
My freshman year in college, 1977, my dorm showed the film “Psycho” one Saturday night. Probably around Halloween. It was black and white and just seemed like ancient history, yet it was 17 years.
Yet, take a movie like “Forrest Gump”, it’s 28 years old and Tommy still seems fresh, like it just came out
Funny how perspectives give you a different outlook on this. As a 10 year old, a decade is your whole life and now later in life a decade is only 25% (if your 40). I look ahead and now enjoy as many moments and try to slow down, because as I’ve aged I realize that I have slowly put too many things on my plate that keeps me too busy to enjoy those moments.
I club once or twice monthly. I got rid of almost all my possessions before having children. My savings have skyrocketed because I spend less on almost everything from housing to transportation in order to afford take out and good food for our meals together. I find if I look at porn or too many women at the club, it affects my relationship witt my SO, due to overstimulation. Peace and quiet is something I never take for granted anymore, and think fondly back on my youth that screamed for something to do to keep from being bored. They say there are two periods in life yiu are the happiest, in your 20’s and then Again in your 60’s and 70’s, probably because you have your health and less responsibility.
Jeez, shailynn, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Try from the perspective of a 71 year old!
Which is probably a bit slower than shadowcat's perspective!🙄
It's seems to fly faster as we get older because relative to our age, each increment gets smaller.
When we are a year old, a day is 1/365 of our total age. That seems like a longer time interval than when we are 10 years old. Because at 10 years old, a day is 1/3650 of our total age.
I'm 66 and I look back and think how fast it all went. I've started to realize late in life we are all only here a short time on this planet and we should try to be nice to each other while we are here. In the Beatle song "We Can Work It Out" John and Paul sing the following: "Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend".
@'scrub: Domn you, sir. I am average size, not short!😜
When she says "you're average", she means you're short
My partner and I entered into a business agreement; with a requirement we renegotiate each year. After the first year, which sounded a lot like a conversation on a putting green (good good?). That was the last time we did and this thread me realize it was 7 years ago.
^ time slows down for yiu because you’re always high and paranoid. Time to detoxify old man. Your time is up. You’ll be dead 💀 as soon as Cowboy fucks you with your strap on in all 3 inputs.
Look not to weekend recreating, but to what you want to accomplish in this life.
SJG
School of Rock Highway Star
"Does this only get worse the older you get?"
The perception of time definitely changes. As does the recognition of opportunity cost. I used to like it when the days flew by, but now I try to have enough time to appreciate good times when they happen. And enough time to make them happen again.