norcebyl
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Just turned 36. I've started to notice time going faster. It's kind of nice but it also kind of sucks
Dec 18, 2024 10:00 PM
norcebyl
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Just turned 36. I've started to notice time going faster. It's kind of nice but it also kind of sucks
filiuspelei
Take the log base 2 of your age. You turned 5 two years ago. Youll be dead by the time youre 7
mirrorz
Ages 25 - 45 flew by at quadruple the speed of 5 - 15. Five year plans seem to go as fast now as weekend plans did then.
richardstinks
Don't think that'll catch on, Jim Croce.
J3lek
That's kind of how I viewed it as well. Time is compared to how much time is in your past. A year to a 5 year old is 20% of the entire life they've lived. That feels like a long time. at 50 years old a year is 2% of the life you've lived.
norcebyl
That's exactly what I mean. It is really made me think on how much first impressions and first experiences really matter.
faro2000
If anything, the differential is even higher.
Autobiographical memories don't tend to form until around 3 years old ("infantile amnesia") so the 5 year old probably only has a couple of years of "experiences" they can actually consciously draw upon.
boogsdad
LoveWarriorPrincess
Yes, the same happened to me once I passed the 35. Apparently it goes faster the older you get.
lombardothethird
Some smart brain person once said that relativity you’re noticing is partially due to the newness of things in your life. Basically the newer something is, the more notes you’re brain is taking so on reflection it feels like there was more taking place. I’m sure I explained that terribly but it sounds insightful from a smart person
norcebyl
When you have no history and something is new you, you try harder to understand it. Instead of relating it to something you already know.
faro2000
Yes, new experiences can help to a degree.
Walking a trail for the first time is more memorable, feels like it takes longer and fills a larger space in the memory than it does on the 12th or 13th occasion.
Woogyface
it's because you observe your first year of life as 100%. your second year is only 50% the size of your whole life. your 36 year of life is just about 3% of your whole life. that's why it feels shorter. in comparison every year feals shorter because it adds less time (percentage) to your whole life
Gratapouit
...until you eventually kick the bucket, man.
Caboune
It's likely that time is passing at the same rate it always has. Barring relativistic effects, of course.
Kyzyl
Your brain/memory is the bucket. Time is a river that fills that bucket.
faro2000
Take your current age and double it and ask yourself where you want to be at that age vs. your current halfway point.
That thought experiment *very* rapidly goes from aspirational to wishful thinking to admission that time goes past way too quickly. Make good use of as much of it as possible.
tallyhoho
Oh no here comes the anxiety that I'm not doing enough
QuitLookinAtMineAim
It's not kind of nice. Source: older than you
norcebyl
What I meant by "kind of nice" was that I don't seem to mind waiting now. Before in my 20s, I'd hate anything that you have to wait for. These days I garden and love it.
QuitLookinAtMineAim
Okay, I see what you mean
Chrondeath
I remember as a kid, waiting for the release of upcoming books and video games that I was anticipating felt like it took forever. Now there's so much "Oh, that came out already?"