Do you find that time is speeding up, as you get older?

[CurrentlySober]

When I was a child, and had the ENTIRE summer holidays away from school, those 6 weeks seemed to last forever...

Then, in my late 20s / early 30s time seemed to 'work properly'...

Now, I'm constantly thinking to myself stuff like 'OH WOW! Its Friday again - Gonna order a Chinese' - But it was only like yesterday that it was Friday last week...

I'm thinking to myself today, Its Sunday - Meaning tomorrow is Monday, and the Gardeners gonna come.... Then I have to remember to put the bin out the next morning.... But it only seems like yesterday that he was on my doorstep, and I paid him.... Then got the bin ready to go out....

Time seems to have REALLY speeded up as I've got older

What about you?

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[Paully]

Yup. I see it like this. When you are 6 yrs. old. 1 year is 1/6th of your life. That's a pretty large amount but then you get older and now a year is only say 1/42nd of your life, and it becomes a smaller less significant amount.

That and you're fucking slower than you used to be and can't get as much shit done.

[ErectMedia]

ditto, when I was younger seemed like shit would last forever, get drunk, shoot pool, race cars, strip clubs, get some ass etc... now it's like time flies scary fast

[sonofsam]

I know you're just joking around with your posts, but I recommend you stop making countless poo threads every day. Not because I care about the content of this forum, since it's clearly dying, but because you're going to regret it in the future.

You might be thinking that you don't take it seriously, and that you're on the computer anyways so it's actually not taking up any of your time to make pointless threads, but the fact is that time could be better spent doing something else.

Just my opinion of course.... have fun either way

TL;DR: Life is short. Stop wasting it.

[rowan]

1. Thanks for not making this thread about shit.

2. Yes. Maybe it's age, or maybe I just come up with too many ideas that are impossible for one guy to complete.

[armysmoke]

I have learned to enjoy everyday after losing friends in Iraq, Afghanistan and stupid accidents.

[dyna mo]

time slows down as we get older.

when you are 5 years old 1 year = 20% of your life.

when you are 50 years old 1 year = 2%


perspective.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by ErectMedia

ditto, when I was younger seemed like shit would last forever, get drunk, shoot pool, race cars, strip clubs, get some ass etc... now it's like time flies scary fast

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by CurrentlySober

When I was a child, and had the ENTIRE summer holidays away from school, those 6 weeks seemed to last forever...

Then, in my late 20s / early 30s time seemed to 'work properly'...

Now, I'm constantly thinking to myself stuff like 'OH WOW! Its Friday again - Gonna order a Chinese' - But it was only like yesterday that it was Friday last week...

I'm thinking to myself today, Its Sunday - Meaning tomorrow is Monday, and the Gardeners gonna come.... Then I have to remember to put the bin out the next morning.... But it only seems like yesterday that he was on my doorstep, and I paid him.... Then got the bin ready to go out....

Time seems to have REALLY speeded up as I've got older

What about you?

.

Hi CS,

You're not alone, and the effect is felt by alot of people.

From http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-we-get-older/

. We gauge time by memorable events.
As William James hypothesized, we may be measuring past intervals of time by the number of events that can be recalled in that period. Imagine a 40-something mom experiencing the repetitive, stressful daily grind work and family life. The abundant memories of her high school years (homecoming football games, prom, first car, first kiss, graduation) may, compared to now, seem like much longer than the mere four years that they were.

2. The amount of time passed relative to one?s age varies.
For a 5-year-old, one year is 20% of their entire life. For a 50-year-old, however, one year is only 2% of their life. This ?ratio theory,? proposed by Janet in 1877, suggests that we are constantly comparing time intervals with the total amount of time we?ve already lived.

3. Our biological clock slows as we age.
With aging may come the slowing of some sort of internal pacemaker. Relative to the unstoppable clocks and calendars, external time suddenly appears to pass more quickly.

4. As we age, we pay less attention to time.
When you?re a kid on December 1, you?re faithfully counting down the days until Santa brings your favorite Hot Wheels down the chimney. When you?re an adult on December 1, you?re a little more focused on work, bills, family life, scheduling, deadlines, travel plans, Christmas shopping, and all of that other boring adult stuff. The more attention one focuses on tasks such as these, the less one will notice the passage of time.

5. Stress, stress, and more stress.
As concluded by Wittmann and Lehnhoff (and replicated by Friedman and Janssen), the feeling that there is not enough time to get things done may be reinterpreted as the feeling that time is passing too quickly. Even older individuals (who are, more often than not, retired from work) may continue to feel similarly due to physical handicaps or diminished cognitive ability.

To gain perspective on the issue though, read the entire article at http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...-we-get-older/

[bronco67]

I think you gather a "frame of reference" for time passage as you get older. High School felt like an eternity even though it was only 4 years, but at that point in your life it was a quarter of your time on earth. Kind of like what Dyna Mo said.

Now 4 years zips by like nothing.

[fitzmulti]

Yes.
{I am required to write more, but I don't want or feel I need to do so.}

[Arnold [LB]]

Yes, definitely.

[mikesouth]

no doubt about it...

[bronco67]

I'm about to have my first child in a couple of months, and I keep thinking about how when she's graduating high school, I'll be on the verge of being an old man --- and that 18 years will probably go by fast.

[Robatolla]

turned 40 this year and have thought a lot about this recently. Totally faster!

[MiamiBoyz]

Your perception will continue to speed up as you race closer and closer to your ultimate goal which is death. Death is the end of time.

[WDF]

I have been told, by those older then I, that after a period time becomes meaningless as CRS (Can't Remember Shit) set in. I think the passage of time is relative to events during that period, it speeds up and slows down with varying situations.

[NewOldPlayer]

If you are not doing anything meaningful with your life, it will go by faster and faster the older you get, because you are doing the same boring things over and over with no meaning and no relevance.

When you start doing real things in life that have a purpose and true depth, the days, weeks and months are much longer because now each minute of your life has substance. You're energy is up, your work and goals are meaningful and you sleep like a baby every night.

If you find your time is slipping by you faster and faster, get off the couch, get away from the computer screen you are staring at now and DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE. You only get one.

[martinsc]

yes... unfortunately

[pimpmaster9000]

it has more to do with body temperature than it does with anything else...time goes "faster" in the morning because your body temperature is different than in the afternoon for example...the same holds true for when you age, your perception of time speeds up and times goes by "faster"....

it will never be meassured exactly because the chemical clock theory is impossible to test...time has never been more relative

interesting fact: a 100 year old women has perceived less time than a 100 year old man due to the difference in body temperature or chemical clock...even though they botch clocked in 100 years the woman has perceived 20-30% less

another argument is IQ...

everybody has intellect, even a slug, intellect is defined as the ability to solve problems....

intelligence is the speed of the ability to solve problems to put it simple...

if you can process more data in a shorter period of time then it is fair to claim that you perceive more than somebody who can not...

[naughtylaura]

Time is going sooo fast it's crazy. Christmas still feels like yesterday and its coming around again in like 4 months. What happened!

[John-ACWM]

Interesting perspectives, good read

[Manfap]

All I know is someone keeps stealing Thursdays.

[aka123]

Not really, but constant "replays" don't feel as much as the first time you "watch it". Only thing that seems to go faster is the journey when I travel previously unfamiliar route back.

If you get more "highlights" into your life time will seem "longer", good, bad, doesn't matter, as long as you have something to remember. Your memory works that way.

[johnny_r]

Yes, definitely! Every year seems to be shorter than the one before .. ;-)

[CDSmith]

Originally Posted by naughtylaura

Time is going sooo fast it's crazy. Christmas still feels like yesterday and its coming around again in like 4 months. What happened!

Oh god you had to bring up Christmas. I've been saying this for years, that Christmas ought to be changed to every TWO years.

Especially when they start advertising xmas stuff as early as September.


Don't get me started on back-to-school ads running in July. Nothing takes the blow off summer like advertising FALL & WINTER stuff in the middle of vacation time.


As to the OP it's like the old song says -- You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

So true. I didn't get it back in the 70's as a kid, it was just a great song then.

Now I so totally get it.