Do you really think time goes faster now that you are older?

[seadoug]

I know everyone says this, but when I was working, my days flew by (some because I couldn't wait to get to the weekend). I was up in the morning, on e-mail or calls all day, then dinner time came and I was exhausted. When I was traveling for my job, I counted the days until I could go back home. Time seemed to travel really quickly. A year flew by without my really noticing.

Now that I'm retired, I feel as though time has slowed down because I get to enjoy each day and can "stop and smell the roses". I think about the 20 years between 45 and 65, and they flew by. Now I feel as though the years between 65 and 85 (if I make it to that age) will go at a lot slower pace.

Anyone else?

 

[NorthernLight]

It's flying by. A couple of examples:

I moved in here 2 years ago. I feel like I just moved in.

I always pay my monthly phone bill right away. Once I got a bill and thought, "They made a mistake. I already paid that." No, I'd paid the previous bill, a month ago!

 

[Bella]

Do you really think time goes faster now that you are older?​

Now that I'm retired, I feel as though time has slowed down because I get to enjoy each day and can "stop and smell the roses". I think about the 20 years between 45 and 65, and they flew by. Now I feel as though the years between 65 and 85 (if I make it to that age) will go at a lot slower pace.

Anyone else?

In my world time has always moved quickly. Now that I'm older, time hasn't slowed down, it's whizzing by at an alarming rate!

 

[mrstime]

It flies by, April just flew by and it is May already!

 

[davey]

its all relative really and some new aged timetravellers think that our current models and practices are incorrect anyway and just a convenient lie?

 

[jet]

is it that time already

 

[Magna-Carta]

Yes it seems to speed up as we get older. It only seems like 12 months ago that is was this time last year!

Don't think of that last statement too deeply.

 

[oldpop]

I do not think time moves any faster than it has in any other time of my life. I do think my perception of it has though. Time seems to whiz by at a blistering pace these days. The older I get the faster it passes.

 

[Tish]

Yep, I think so.

 

[hollydolly]

Oh yes..I cannot belive that last year I was doing XY & Z... and then told it wasn't last year it was 10 years ago... I'm stunned... and if time goes as fast in the next 20 years as it has in the last 20 years... I will be verry old.. before I have a chance to think about what's happened..

 

[Alligatorob]

Do you really think time goes faster now that you are older?

Yep, seems to be one of the laws of physics or something...

 

[davey]

as we physically move more slowly time seems to move faster perhaps and as we look back on past events we sometimes can't believe it was so long ago but that's not time moving faster its our brains moving slower?

 

[s76l42]

I know everyone says this, but when I was working, my days flew by (some because I couldn't wait to get to the weekend). I was up in the morning, on e-mail or calls all day, then dinner time came and I was exhausted. When I was traveling for my job, I counted the days until I could go back home. Time seemed to travel really quickly. A year flew by without my really noticing.

Now that I'm retired, I feel as though time has slowed down because I get to enjoy each day and can "stop and smell the roses". I think about the 20 years between 45 and 65, and they flew by. Now I feel as though the years between 65 and 85 (if I make it to that age) will go at a lot slower pace.

Anyone else?

I think we are just more aware of time and our own mortality as we get older and wiser.

 

[JustDave]

Now that I'm retired, I feel as though time has slowed down
Anyone else?

Not me. I think you are unusual. For most of us, this time thing has nothing to do with retirement. I retired at 54 and I had already been noticing time speeding up. And it doesn't seem to have anything to do with being busily occupied by something pleasant. It's a dramatic experience though, and I find it a little unsettling.

 

[JustDave]

I think we are just more aware of time and our own mortality as we get older and wiser.

The explanation I read was that our biological clock does not work like a clock, calendar, or any other arbitrary construct. Our biological clock has only one unit of time, which is the amount of time you have experienced at any point in your life. It is one life time in length.

The first 10 years of your life is one unit. But if you live to be 100, the last 10 years is only one tenth of a unit and passes 10 times faster than the first 10 years.

 

[ronaldj]

some days yes some days no........but why did the man toss his clock out the window of the top floor of the buildings.......he wanted to see time fly.

 

[twinkles]

time goes too fast for me--i know i move slower and it takes me longer to do something

 

[fuzzybuddy]

The reason time seems to go faster when we're older is, now, we can only remember half of it.

 

[Marian]

The explanation I read was that our biological clock does not work like a clock, calendar, or any other arbitrary construct. Our biological clock has only one unit of time, which is the amount of time you have experienced at any point in your life. It is one life time in length.

The first 10 years of your life is one unit. But if you live to be 100, the last 10 years is only one tenth of a unit and passes 10 times faster than the first 10 years.

Interesting!

 

[officerripley]

Time definitely seems to go by faster now that I'm old but still not fast enough.

 

[hearlady]

Yes. Definitely much faster so I'm trying to savor it as much as possible.

 

[Myrtle]

I think it depends on how busy and interested you are. Time goes faster when you're a little overbooked.

 

[spectratg]

Our perception of time greatly changes as we get older. It is influenced by memory and how much we have experienced. For an 10 year old, 1 year is 10% of their lifetime; for a 5 year old it is a whopping 20%! But for an 80 year old, it is barely more than 1% of our life to date, and for a 50 year old it is 2%. For a child, a year is full of new events and changes, new ideas and experiences. But for us oldsters, our life has not changed much in the past year or two or three. Our brains blend time together in our minds and we feel like it went by quickly.

 

[JustBonee]

Time is flying by quickly for me on a daily basis, and I don't have that much to do in retirement.
I don't know where some days go!

When I was putting away my Christmas decorations after the holidays, I was thinking I shouldn't pack them away too securely, as it will feel like tomorrow when I get them out again.. lol

 

[NorthernLight]

It might be how many events we can pack into a day. When I was young, I could go to work, visit a friend, go for a bike ride, hang out with my neighbor, go to a party, go to a restaurant after, etc. The next day, who knows?

Now I do much less. And it's probably the same as yesterday, so it hardly registers.