Time Passing So Quickly
July 2nd, 2018 at 9:56:18 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Article about time passing fast as you get older. All of us experience it. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/clear-organized-and-motivated/201603/why-is-time-passing-so-quickly-these-days I was bored as a kid, a lot. So time crept by. I always wanted to be doing anything other than what I was doing. As I got older, an adult, I learned how to stay not bored, As a result, time sped up, instead of an abundance of time because I was bored, I never have any time now. And since the internet came along, I'm never bored for even a minute. Time now flies by. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 3rd, 2018 at 5:28:48 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | The days are long but the years are short. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 3rd, 2018 at 7:04:32 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4944 |
I agree, with the internet I am rarely bored. There is just so much to learn so easily now. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
July 3rd, 2018 at 9:53:10 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | Remember how as a kid you counted the days until your birthday? It seemed like forever when it was a month out. Now birthdays seem to come at me every other day. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
July 3rd, 2018 at 10:46:55 AM permalink | |
JimRockford Member since: Sep 18, 2015 Threads: 2 Posts: 971 |
Even waiting in line at the DMV, the whole internet is in the palm of my hand. I marvel at that. The only time I'm truly board is on a long drive. (2004 pickup, no phone connect) The mind hungers for that on which it feeds. |
July 3rd, 2018 at 11:20:29 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
I counted the days till school was out, then tried to slow summer down. Counted the days till Xmas, tried to make Xmas vacay last forever. Watched the clock creep by in school, waiting for 3 pm. I do none of that now, it's seems like Xmas was just a month ago, my bday is here again already, vacay's zip by at lightening speed. There was a guy in the army in the book MASH, which the TV series is made from. To make life last longer, he was angry and unhappy all the time at everything. They show him a few times in the movie. His only line is, "Goddam army". At one point he says "Goddam army". And his jeep won't start. "Goddam army jeep", he says. Got a huge laugh in the theater. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 3rd, 2018 at 4:50:10 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | A big killer for me is routines. The older I get, the more into routines I am. Cook at the same time, eat, go to bed, go to sleep, get up, all at the same time every day. Watch the same channel when I eat. Shop for food on the same day every week at the same time. This makes time fly by too. The older you get the more you live in the past. By the time you're 60 you have 40 adult years to look back on, and 20 when you weren't. I'm late 60's and 30 years ago seems like yesterday to me. Seinfeld's been off for 20 years, are you kidding me? If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 5th, 2018 at 4:18:42 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
Every day, every single day, after I'm up for awhile, I say "Holy Crap! I've been up 3 hours already?" or 4 hours, or whatever. I've got nothing done yet! Days fly by and I do not remember it being like that. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention to it like I am now. I know this, it's very irritating now.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
July 5th, 2018 at 5:49:04 PM permalink | |
kenarman Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 14 Posts: 4470 | My theory about time speeding up as you get older is that your internal time clock is based on your life span. When you are 6 years old a year is 1/6 of your life. When you are 60 one year is 1/60 of your life. This has a huge affect of how you perceive time. "but if you make yourselves sheep, the wolves will eat you." Benjamin Franklin |
July 5th, 2018 at 6:59:56 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
I've read that. Another theory is that after 60 you have so many memories that you spend a lot more time there than before, and this speeds time up because you are not in the present as much. One of the places where time drags no matter what your age is waiting in line. Time seems to slow way down because you're forced to stay totally in the present. The same with being in a traffic jam on the freeway. 30 min feels like 2 hours. I may be onto something here. Time speeds up because our minds are often not on what were doing when we're older. I dated a girl in my 20's that was always horribly late. Hours late at times. I learned she spent almost no time in the present, she was always lost in her thoughts and had no awareness of passing time. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |