time

[sambro]

i get the feeling that time is speeding up.

[bibblebub]

As Steve Miller said "Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future"

[sambro]

you know,theres not enough hours in the day,

[bibblebub]

just make them shorter and then you can have as many as you like

[seadogg]

We all have our own perception of time. Think of a minute under the dentist's drill and a minute enjoying yourself.
When you are retired it really seems to fly. The actual change in astronomical time is so small in our lifetime we would never notice it.
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[Magicstick]

When you're a kid a hot summers day seemed to last forever and when you're an adult whole decades just fly past, sad as many of us are in no rush to die.

[seadogg]

I envy the people who keep a detailed diary. At least they can relive some of their life through it..

[Magicstick]

I may start an online diary seadogg, thanks for the idea.

[usathome]

Hi all.... as a teenager and then wife & mother I kept a diary, its lovely to read back through them & find memories I'd long forgotten, not kept one for a few years maybe I'll start again .....

[wildwood]

Is that relative?

[pcbpage]

maybe you're slowing down

[jomifl]

why waste your time reading your diary, lifes too short!

[Quizmonster]

I've long believed that the apparent 'speeding-up' of time has simply got to do with the percentage of your life any given period represents. For example, the year between your 9th and 10th birthdays involves 10% of your life to date, which is quite a large chunk. On the other hand, the year between your 49th and 50th birthdays involves only 2% of your life to date, which is a relatively small chunk. It may well SEEM, therefore, to have passed five times more rapidly than than the earlier year.

[Dagman]

I think that we all end up in a rut such as jobs or routine behaviour that we, well I personally, have little time awareness over, such as my job, for 40 hrs a week doing the same mundane stuff going on auto-pilot, and as soon as i've walked in I'm walking out! Bam...8 hours a day lost. So I feel I'm losing time there. I do try to do different things as much as possible and also try not to plan ahead too much. Keep occupied but not bored. Seems to work for me anyways.

[Dagman]

Oh, and another thing, the main culprit that devours my time if I'm not careful is sitting at the computer, anyone else feel that? The familiar "I'll just go surfing the web for half an hour" 3 hours later.........yep, still there!

[boxtops]

I subscribe to quizmonster's theory. When I was a child, six weeks' summer holidays stretched right over the horizon - now I say "what, I've only got six weeks to get that piece of work done?" (or paint the house, or whatever)

[boxtops]

Yes dagman, AB is a great time-stealer ;-)

[jno]

yes, you've got an extra hour tonight, sambro, hope that helps.

[roger]

It's because of the History Monks - see Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett)