Time speeds up as you age?

[DrLeftover]

.... interesting.

If you are like me, you’ll be astonished to discover it’s already halfway through the year. And before you know it, Thanksgiving or Christmas will be upon you yet again.



When I was a child it all seemed so different. I thought it was the dumbest, most obvious thing for my relatives to point out how much I’d grown since they last saw me. Now I spend my time constantly surprised at the way the months and years fly by, I finally understand what they meant. The school summer holidays used to stretch on forever. Now summer is gone in the blink of an eye. How can it be almost seven years since Hurricane Katrina, and twenty-six since the explosion at Chernobyl, when I remember so clearly hearing those news stories?

http://www.bbc.com/f...d-up-as-you-age

 

[Kahnai]

Interesting article, and in my case at least completely true.



Your parents saying, We'll go to the amusement park in one week! was like torture as it felt like years past waiting for it!



Now, even if I have something to look forward to (like my fav show putting out a new movie in 2013), it's going to go by so fast even though the movie's release is 8 some odd months away.



I think this is because as a child your brain is still growing, there for your take in everything and that makes things take longer. Now as adult, our brains are no longer too fascinated with the everyday goings on of the world around us and we have so many other things to do that it seems like we blink an a year has gone by.



It really doesn't seem like I graduated High School all that long ago and it was in 2007!



Yea, I agree...

 

[thecostumedanceparty]

I agree with this too. I can't explain it, but it just feels this way.



Maybe it's because as adults we can plan what's next throughout the day. Children just take life as it is and figure things out.

 

[DrLeftover]

it doesn't seem all that long ago ... Graduated High School ....... in 2007



Interesting perspective.



To me, it seems like I graduated AGES ago. And I remember every intervening year, or at least most of them... but it doesn't seem like that much time has passed, but it has.



Oh, when was that for me?



Ages ago.



Let me put it this way.



Jimmy Carter was President.