Do you think the years go rushing on too quickly?

Bretrick said:
When reminiscing I would always say, 10 years ago I.......
Then one day I decided to count back to see how long ago it really was.
10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 35 years
The topic I was discussion was in reality 37 years agošŸ˜®
I no longer say 10 years ago, I say, Way back when...šŸ˜„
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I say it every day, I've never known time to pass as quickly as it seems to be doing now...
 
We all listened to old people who mentioned how time goes by so fast. I'm not sure when I first actually noticed it. Maybe in my 40s, but at 81, days, weeks and months fly by so fast that I'm losing track of how long ago something important happened. I do like the changing of seasons, when the forests turn green then to a blaze of colors, and the winter when I can snuggle up in my wool blanket, and none of the seasons lasts so long that I get tired of it.
 
The other day..and this happens often now... I was recalling a significant event in my life, and I said it happened roughly 5 or 6 years ago... but in actual fact transpired it happened 20 years ago... I was stunned. I was just thinking, that past 20 years went like lightening... the next 20 years if I am to live to see it will go even faster if it;s at all possible.. and that's really scary! :eek:
 
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hollydolly said:
The other day..and this happens often now... I was recalling a significant event in my life, and I said it happened roughly 5 or 6 years ago... but in actual fact transpired it happened 20 years ago... I was stunned. I was just thinking, that past 20 years went like lightening... the next 20 years if I am to live to see it will go even faster if it;s at all pssible.. and that's really scary! :eek:
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Suppose you lived for 10,000 years? That would be a rush, a literal rush, not just some passing high.
 
The seeming passage of time during human lifetimes is like that of a bowling ball rolling down a many miles long gradient, accelerating accelerating.

Looking back, the perception of our lives for those that say have lived to age 80 years, might be that one had lived half their life after reaching late teens. During K12 years, summer vacations were as long as several later full year's passage.
 
I was I4 or 15 when I told my mom I couldnā€™t wait for the end of summer school dance.

She looked at me and quietly said ā€ donā€™t wish your life away. The older you get the faster time goes. It will be here before you know it.ā€

It did seem like a long wait, but it also seemed like I had barely turned around and was graduating from high school-a few years later.

In my adult years, I have likened the passing of time to a gerbil in a wheel, going faster and faster and faster until we suddenly fall offā€”ā€”ā€”ā€”-
 
David777 said:
The seeming passage of time during human lifetimes is like that of a bowling ball rolling down a many miles long gradient, accelerating accelerating.

Looking back, the perception of our lives for those that say have lived to age 80 years, might be that one had lived half their life after reaching late teens. During K12 years, summer vacations were as long as several later full year's passage.
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I remember back then. Time passed so slowly that summer vacation seemed about as long as the school year, which was equal to forever. But it didn't take more than a couple of years to recognize the difference.
 
When younger I had my days/nights/weekends filled with so much to get done, there didn't seem enough hours in the day to do it all.
Rarely a moment to give to myself. Work, home chores, family duties, always pushing to cover them all. Always looking for the next
date that would give me some break, enjoyment that I usually didn't get. Not really wanting it to arrive as then that precious vacation would be over and right back to another rear running in 5th gear.
and then this happened:
2283_50718967907_7979_n.jpg Time passes just the same, I just fill it up differently. Now I have very little to fill it up with.
So I fill it with memories and wish for something to do so I don't sit idle and go brain dead from badly made streamed movies. I find the
days slipping by as if in a brain fog or is it I just don't really care to count them as they go by? You can't discuss the changes in the world
around us to anyone anymore as we all know why. Our topics are limited to the younger generations because our experience is so outdated.
Even if you are knowledgeable, they see your wrinkles and nod respectfully or silently pray for you to hush.
Is it the question of "Is time really passing faster?" or is the real question " Are we counting the days until the final vacation?" dreading it to arrive but knowing it's the last duty we have?
 
David777 said:
The seeming passage of time during human lifetimes is like that of a bowling ball rolling down a many miles long gradient, accelerating accelerating.

Looking back, the perception of our lives for those that say have lived to age 80 years, might be that one had lived half their life after reaching late teens.
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There is a mathematical formula that can be used to determine the exact halfway point of ones life based on human perception. But it's based on the following theory, which sounds intuitively correct, but must be accepted for the calculation.

Whatever age you are, that span of time equals 1 lifetime. OK?
When we are ten that was one lifetime.
But in accelerating time as we perceive it, lets assume we are now 20.

But why does 10 to 20 pass more quickly in perception than 0 to 10?
It's because that last 10 years is only half a lifetime, but when we were 10 that was a full lifetime.

Let's be 80 now. Why does the last 10 years seem so short?
It's because it only feels like 1/8 of a lifetime.

Human's are biologically egocentric. We are the center of every thing we perceive. We are the center of the universe, and in the past, we had actually perceived our placement on Earth as the center of the universe based on our flawed egocentric nature. I think that might be why we perceive time the way we do. We are using an expanding yardstick based on our own one lifetime. Time may not be changing, but our yardstick keeps getting longer.

Well that was fun. For me anyway. It's fun to play with this stuff.
 
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JustDave said:
There is a mathematical formula that can be used to determine the exact halfway point of ones life based on human perception. But it's based on the following theory, which sounds intuitively correct, but must be accepted for the calculation.

Whatever age you are, that span of time equals 1 lifetime. OK?
When we are ten that was one lifetime.
But in accelerating time as we perceive it, lets assume we are now 20.

But why does 10 to 20 pass more quickly in perception than 0 to 10?
It's because that last 10 years is only half a lifetime, but when we were 10 that was a full lifetime.

Let's be 80 now. Why does the last 10 years seem so short?
It's because it only feels like 1/8 of a lifetime.

Human's are biologically egocentric. We are the center of every thing we perceive. We are the center of the universe, and in the past, we had actually perceived our placement on Earth as the center of the universe based on our flawed egocentric nature. I think that might be why we perceive time the way we do. We are using an expanding yardstick based on one lifetime. Time may not be changing, but our yardstick keeps getting longer.

Well that was fun. For me anyway. It's fun to play with this stuff.
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I can actually understand that theory thinking how I felt about what was happening as I aged and how I thought about it. My sons want to do a big family thing when I turn a Quarter of a Century old, next year. You even look at it in quarters of a century it seems unbelievable. Now I have an event to set a goal to be around for. :ROFLMAO:
 
I agree that time seems to move faster now than when I was younger. A year will seem longer when it's filled with interesting activities, a new job, dinners out on Friday nights, doing something exciting on Saturdays, and so on, instead of a year we look back on which was mostly filled with repetitive routines.
 
I do! I can't believe my sweet little boy has been eligible to join AARP for two years and in fact is eligible to join this forum. It seems you blink your eyes and your cute little grandchildren are grown. I can't believe that my husband will be gone for seven years in December. I also can't believe that in January I will be retired for 28 years! And look how fast 2025 is going. It was just January a few weeks ago! :)
 

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