A 14-year-old just said to me, in complete earnest, "Everything takes forever. Life is SO SLOW." I almost had to break my "No spoilers" rule but I said nothing. I'll be at my desk weeping if you need me.
Well, in fact, everything *does* take forever - at least if you care about what you do. But that is quite unrelated to whether Life is slow. Or rather, it makes Life seem terrifyingly brief, relative to the time scales required to do anything really well. Vitae summa brevis...