Wait until age 60.
Your perception of time speeds up once you pass 35 years of age. No one talks about this. When you’re young and unsure about your identity, time crawls. Once you figure YOU out, then weeks feel like minutes. It’s terrifying in many ways.
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Grade school- 10 min = an eternity Middle school- 1 hour = forever High school- 1 week = will never end 20s- 1 year = I’ve got time 30s- 5 years = it’s been how long? 40s = well I’m 50 now 50s = so who’s still alive to come to my 70th birthday celebration?
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No. Time is constantly speeding up, via Einstein's Theory of Relativity. When you are 10 y.o., a year is 1/10th of your life and feels about that long. When you are 35, a year is 1/35th. RELATIVELY, it feels like it's moving faster. Older you get, faster time appears to move.
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This blows my mind cause I would think 1/10 would feel faster than 1/35
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If you cut a pizza into 10 slices those slices are bigger than if you cut that pizza into 35 slices. Your life is the pizza.
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I understand fractions but pizza is matter and can not be compared to time perception.
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Yes it can. Years are the slices. The big slice is more of the pie, just like one out of 10 years is more (longer) than 1 out of 35 years. Fractions of your life are the same as fractions of pizza.
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Wait, do I get a new life each year and re cut it into year size slices? Or is it the same pizza and every year I shove another slice in the box? Obviously anything CAN be compared to anything else, but that doesn’t make all analogies useful.
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It’s an analogy. You have one life and it’s divided into years, that’s really not difficult or even debatable. When you are 10 years old, one year is a relatively big piece of the whole. When you are 35, 1 year is comparatively smaller because you have lived 35 of them not 10.
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Did you say no one talks about this? If I had a nickel for every time someone talked about this...
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I literally talk about this all the time. I just did today. I also don't think it's a 35 thing. I think as you age, because a year is less and less of your overall life, it feels quicker and quicker. Time is all about perception.
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Man, I'm 29, my oldest son is 7... Every year it seems like time is speeding up.
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Just wait. It gets worse. Truth. Lol!
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It speeds up continuously but we only recognize it once we have enough mental capacity and room in life to think more deeply about our mortality We experience time speeding up as we perceive it on a relative basis yr10-11 = 10% yr33-34 ~3% (3x faster, loosely)
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As you get older, a year gets shorter and shorter as a percentage of your total life. At the same time, increased responsibility creates more competition for your time. This creates the illusion of time speeding up.
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