Posted: 10/19/2011 12:00:57 AM EDT
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You ever go somewhere or see something that brings up an old memory, then think back "wow where did those years go, they flew by".
I always heard the old timers say that but never really understood. |
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Yep. I can remember my dad and grandfather both talking about how fast the years seem to go by the older you get. As a teenager, I just couldn't understand that. One year seemed just as long another. But I did begin to notice this sometime in my 20s. And now that I'm in my 30s, it seems things have sped up even more.
I don't know what to make of time. I suppose by the time we enter adulthood and adopt adult lives, we become so busy that we don't truly have the same appreciation for time as we do when we are younger, bored and wishing we were older. When I was 12, it seemed summer vacation from school lasted forever. Now that same amount of time sprints by in what seems to be mere days. Crazy, isn't it? |
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Yep. I can remember my dad and grandfather both talking about how fast the years seem to go by the older you get. As a teenager, I just couldn't understand that. One year seemed just as long another. But I did begin to notice this sometime in my 20s. And now that I'm in my 30s, it seems things have sped up even more. I don't know what to make of time. I suppose by the time we enter adulthood and adopt adult lives, we become so busy that we don't truly have the same appreciation for time as we do when we are younger, bored and wishing we were older. When I was 12, it seemed summer vacation from school lasted forever. Now that same amount of time sprints by in what seems to be mere days. Crazy, isn't it? yeah, you do a much better job of explaining it than i do. |
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Yep. I was just reminded that it's been 30 years. Seems like yesterday.
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You ever go somewhere or see something that brings up an old memory, then think back "wow where did those years go, they flew by". I always heard the old timers say that but never really understood. Yup. I'll be 42 in Novemebr, and it's getting worse and worse. Events chums and I remember as if they were YESTERDAY were 5, 10, 25 damned years ago. My kids were JUST BORN, and now they are 16 and 10. In the twinkling of an eye, my friend, in the TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 
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| What's really weird is looking at pics of me mum and dad, when they were younger than I, and I a wee lad. Perspective. Jah willing I see old age with the Missus, we'll be on a damned swing somewhere wondering where it all went. I don't fear the next adventure, at all, and really I'm excited to see what's next, but as "this" is all I *KNOW*, I'm also in NO RUSH. But is surely going to happen, maybe the very next moment. Ya just don't know. |
There is a short story by Stephen King where an old man is talking to a kid about this subject. There are no monsters or killings, just the old man telling how time would slowly swallow the kid just like it swallowed him. Well written story and very ominous. Can't remember the title. 
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| I have come to believe that it is relevant to how long you've been on earth. When you are 5 and Christmas is a whole year away, that is 1/5th the whole time you've been alive and is truly a long time. when you are 20, it is 1/20th, at 40, 1/40th. So as you age, the time interval between events becomes shorter and shorter, hence, time really does seem to speed up. That's my take anyway. |
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I have come to believe that it is relevant to how long you've been on earth. When you are 5 and Christmas is a whole year away, that is 1/5th the whole time you've been alive and is truly a long time. when you are 20, it is 1/20th, at 40, 1/40th. So as you age, the time interval between events becomes shorter and shorter, hence, time really does seem to speed up. That's my take anyway. Your take is accurate.
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I think about this subject almost daily. I was talking to my wife just yesterday how our schedules are a logistical nightmare with our kid's activities, and we don't have time to do anything it seems. Only went camping twice this year because of our busy schedules. It seems the busier you are, the faster time slips away.
My kids think it's an eternity 'till the next weekend gets here. |