time flys by

[wonder years]

who else thinks as they get older the time flys by quicker when i was younger i never understood what people meant by this time was just time now its summer and it feels like christmas was just last week i wish i could slow it down a bit this flying time !!!!!

[Quizmonster]

I subscribe to the view that the apparent speeding up of time as we get older is an aspect of proportion. For example, the year from one's 9th to 10th birthdays represents 10% of one's total life to date...quite a large chunk. The year from our 59th to 60th birthdays is only 1.66% of our total life to date - if my sums are right!..quite a small piece. So, the youngster's year seems long to the youngster, whilst the oldster's year seems short to the oldster.
Believe me...they get faster and faster!

[scotstone]

When you retire you will find it goes even faster! And you will find that you do not have the time to do all the things that you used to do when you were working!

[Whickerman]

Crikey - we literally just had this conversation in the canteen at work...spooky

[wonder years]

thanks to all for answering, quizmonsters answer was very intresting i think i,ll try to go slower this might help there again maybe not!

[compman]

At work this week we've just booked our Christmas meal!!

[Mr Songman]

Time is relative. The length of a minute depends entirely on which side of the bathroom door you are standing!

Or as Albert Einstein said:

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

So maybe it just depends on what we do with our time?

:)

[tony1941]

Or, as I saw inscribed above a door once;

Sic hora, ut vita fugit.

At the time I was 18 and didn't understand; at 65 it almost seems a trivial observation.