Speeding up

[slimjim]

Why does life seem to get faster as you get older? Will it carry on doing this?

[sft42]

Oh tartan how i agree with you. being raised by my wee scottish granny she used to sit me on her knee and tell me as you get older time goes quicker. Of course back then i though gran was mad as summer holidays were 6 weeks long and lasted forever. Now I know that my gran was a font of knowledge (now lost to Alzheimers unfortunately) and she was right. and surely from each person's point of view it's only your own perception on the world that counts so if time seems to be getting quicker then to all intents it is. Try reading the Stephen king short story "My Pretty Pony"

[rja211077]

Tartanwizard...did you nick that penultimate sentence from Bladerunner?!

[morpheus]

the mayan prophicies predict that the world will end December 23 2012. If we allow our selves to believe that time is not in fact linear but a vortex, this would explain the reason why we feel time is accelerating as we near the epicentre.

[magpie]

Personally, I think it has a lot to do with our perception as children and then as adults. If you think about it, a child sees the world as a place of discovery, most of our early lives are spent learning by finding new things, places and there is a sort of "newness" in each day. When we get older, that approach gets lost in routine and mundane tasks. Somewhere, we lose the ability to really see each day as a potentially interesting experience and before we know it, weeks become months then years and then decades until we snuff it. Paradoxically, how many times have you heard somebody say something like "that last 10 minutes seemed like an hour"?

[morpheus]

It's all true, Ned! And it's all lies, ask the next crazy person you meet.