Time goes by way too fast

sryanbruen

Why does it feel like time gets faster and faster? It's already March and 2016 looks like being faster than 2015 whilst 2013 was the slowest ever year for me. What's up with this? It really bugs me but I don't know why :P.

me_irl

You're getting older.

kneemos

You're moving too fast...Einsteins theory of moving too fast.

Or is that moving too slow?

Alf Stewart.

The older you get, the quicker it seems time flys by.

For example, when you were sixteen, (and knew it all) eight years ago seemed like a life time ago, as it was literally half your lifetime ago.

As you get on, eight years passing seems to a relatively short while ago in comparison.

Bio Mech

Perspective

valoren

In my head 2008 was 3 years ago.

biko

Fugit inreparabile tempus

sryanbruen

biko wrote: »

Fugit inreparabile tempus

Excuse me ?

SEPT 23 1989

valoren wrote: »

In my head 2008 was 3 years ago.

I still think a 00 reg car is fairly new

Menas

Time flies when you are having fun.

No truer words said.

me_irl

sryanbruen wrote: »

Excuse me ?

Latin for "time flies"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempus_fugit

CorkMan_

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

I still think a 00 reg car is fairly new

That's why I still drive one :pac:

etoughguy

When I did the J1 many many moons ago a local guy I worked with used say to me "time is the guy, time is the enemy"

me_irl

etoughguy wrote: »

When I did the J1 many many moons ago a local guy I worked with used say to me "time is the guy, time is the enemy"

I heard something similar, "Time is the buddy, Time is the friend"

Maximus Alexander

With every passing year, a year becomes a smaller percentage of your life lived, and thus seems like a shorter amount of time. It's only going to get worse.

It doesn't help that you tend to be in more of a routine as you get older, with fewer new experiences to engage your brain and create lasting memories. It's just a blur of weeks melting into one another.

Speedwell

I have RPG dice dating back to 1982. That's probably older than half the people on the forum.

The people who say it's relative are correct. You experience time as a fraction of the time you have ever experienced.

I think there's a theory that the "compression rate" increases as well, so that instead of storing memories in a comparatively full form, you actually begin to store them as "OK, this event is like that prior memory except with these few changes". As you age, you'll see that it becomes a bit harder to remember whether Cousin Mary wore her red hat or her white hat to the beach last summer, since your memory will store "(beach trip) Mary Bundoran (hat red/white)" as shorthand for the record for the summer family trips for the past five years. When you're a child, you store memories more like "beach (sun sand shells salt) (sandwich Coke) baby (swim water (up my nose)) (Cousins (Mary Joe Killian Carol))...".

Don't worry, you still retain your ability to remember and learn things as you always do. You have to sort of tag them "important stuff" to do it, though, and the best way of doing that is finding out what you're interested in. I'm learning a new instrument this spring, as well as new software packages for work. Learning never ends.

Anxiety about things will always compromise your attention and memory, so try to keep your mind in order as best you can.

Beasty

me_irl wrote: »

Latin for "time flies"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempus_fugit

Sounds like the OP's suffering from way too much fun

The antidote - find something to bore yourself senseless ....

jobbridge4life

THe compression thing makes sense but I have heard from older people, like 60/70+ that it slows down again.

sryanbruen

Beasty wrote: »

Sounds like the OP's suffering from way too much fun

The antidote - find something to bore yourself senseless ....

One thing: I never have fun. They say I was never a kid.

Maximus Alexander

jobbridge4life wrote: »

THe compression thing makes sense but I have heard from older people, like 60/70+ that it slows down again.

That's because they start to forget how long they've lived :pac:

Speedwell

sryanbruen wrote: »

One thing: I never have fun. They say I was never a kid.

Oh, I believe they say it all right, but it's complete BS. One of the best perks about being an adult is that you can choose, and afford, to be a kid whenever you want to, because you no longer have to expend energy to convince people you're growing up.

sryanbruen

Speedwell wrote: »

Oh, I believe they say it all right, but it's complete BS. One of the best perks about being an adult is that you can choose, and afford, to be a kid whenever you want to, because you no longer have to expend energy to convince people you're growing up.

Reminds me of...

diomed

"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future"

I'm going to fly like an eagle. That might stop it.

Olishi4

Time is on my side, yes it is.

AlekSmart

CorkMan_ wrote: »

That's why I still drive one :pac:

WHAT ??...How could you...don't you realize the peril you are placing yourself in...Willya just pay attention to the Irish Motor Insurers when the tells ye that any Motoring Car over 10 years old is :eek: DANGEROUS :eek:...and therefore will be deemed uninsurable..Get with the programme Corkie !!!

Ciderswigger

I broke my leg 4 weeks ago and have been laid up on the couch ever since. The boredom is slowly killing me. Trust me, time is most definitely not flying.

Speedwell

http://wondermark.com/c1174/ very a propos

mansize

Is this a Facebook post I have to like and share, ah, remember 2015... good times... ¬¬