time speeds up

[arely staircase]

day then another day
and then another year

Christmas with your family, or not
then all of sudden
its that same time again

when you were a kid
a year took forever
and you couldn't wait

not now
fast forward
rewind

[Capt.Rocky300]

1. Shortly before my dad passed away at age 93....

He said " I can't believe I'm at the end of the trail. It's gone by so fast."

[arely staircase]

2. +1 nt

[2naSalit]

3. Made me think if this...

[defacto7]

4. When I was about 10

my Dad told me, "I went to bed on my 30th birthday. The next morning I woke up and I was 60."

He was right.

edit: When you think about it, at 10.. a year is about 12% of your conscious memory. When you are 50.. a year is about 2%. I think that has a big influence on how you see your life as past memory. 2% of your life passing by would seem a lot faster than when you're 10 and a year is a much larger portion of your life. Relativity makes a difference.

[Laelth]

7. Spot on. n/t

-Laelth

[arely staircase]

12. makes sense

The relativity of the passage of the years in one's life is fascinating. I wouldnt be 20 again for anything. Youth is wasted on the young.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. It doesn't help when you are trying to blank out the Bush Years.

[onethatcares]

6. and the Reagan years

and poppys term, and dicks turn.

geez, no wonder I'm pissed.

[Fumesucker]

8. Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

[arely staircase]

11. and then one day you find

ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun.

[Roland99]

9. nice...fitting

I'm traveling on business at the moment. Went walking around the area near the hotel yesterday. Ended up in a Toys 'R' Us. For some reason, I flashed back to when my daughters were little and we'd go shopping for toys or wish-listing for Christmas. Many years ago and hadn't thought of that in, well, since I was with them then.

Funny how the mind works and how memories are triggered (or as I read recently, they aren't triggered so much as recreated).

[arely staircase]

15. good

I was afraid it was a bordeline vanity thread. Glad you read it in that context. Seriously, that is cool.

[Roland99]

18. +1

[babydollhead]

10. its the moments, the golden moments, that make a life. nt.

[arely staircase]

17. and living in the present one too

not getting too melancholy about the past or to anxious for an upcoming thing helps, when you can actually pull that off.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Yes it does, because, whatever unit of time you're gauging, day, month year, decade becomes

an increasingly smaller % of your total life experience.

Thanks for the thread, arely staircase.

[arely staircase]

14. you are welcome

And someone pointed the relativity out upthread. And it is so true. The only exception I would point out is the more micro units like hours(though this is relative too) is how when you are crunched and on a deadline the clocks speeds up. When you are waiting for something and nothing to do in the meantime, it slows.

[Blaukraut]

16. A Theory I read on this regarding memory storage

Time seems to go by faster if we repeat daily activities without much variance, because our brain will store the same daily activity as one memory (take breakfast as an example. If you do it the same way every day, you won't remember each individual breakfast after a while), whereas variations in our routine get stored as individual memories. So take that as living your life doing as many different things as possible