Yes, because if you think about it, its always a smaller and smaller portion of your life.
For example, when you are 6 years old, 3 years seems like forever. Why? Because it is HALF your life. When you are 40, 30, now 3 years is just 10% of your life. I dont know if I am making sense.
On a different note, since I have had my son, time seems to fly faster than ever.
Ok, here’s theory about this topic that my math teacher once told me.
Early in your life you are living a much greater percentage of your life, which correlates to it seeming to go slower. For example, When you go from 5 years old to 6 you’ve just lived 17% of your life. when you go from 16 to 17 years old you’ve lived 6% of your life. And from 50 to 51 years you’ve lived 2% of you’re life.
So as you can see, you are living smaller and smaller fractions of your life as you get older, which makes it seem to pass quicker as you get older.
[quote author=“AndruGearLive”]Yes, because if you think about it, its always a smaller and smaller portion of your life.
For example, when you are 6 years old, 3 years seems like forever. Why? Because it is HALF your life. When you are 40, 30, now 3 years is just 10% of your life. I dont know if I am making sense.
On a different note, since I have had my son, time seems to fly faster than ever.
hmmm…. I always thought that as I got older I have more responsibilities, more on my mind, and more things I want to do that take up larger blocks of time. I’ve never heard the percentage explanation before….interesting.
I read an article where they were able to prove that it was related to core body temperature. As you age your core body temperature drops significantly. At a young age you “run hot”, and this distorts your perception of time. It’s the same when you’re physically exerted or otherwise overheated, such as on a hot day. Next time you’re working under a hot July sun take note at how time seems to drag. 8|
I think when you’re younger, time is slow, cuz well, what are you doing? eat, watching cartoons, sleeping. you get older, you get more busy, you lose track of time. then when u get old and feeble, time slows down again, cuz you’re in a retirement home, with a bedpan, waiting for that time to destroy it.
It most certainly does seem so. A year passes by so quckly. Why, I remember when something that happened a year ago just seems like yesterday!
It’s kinda sad… I hate the feeling of growing old.
Everyday seems the same now, and you don’t get to do so much and have fun and do different things everyday. //sigh//
i think so.. i wanted to get my learners when i turned 14.. and i kept saying to myself every monday id get it the next day and looky here im 15 and 2 months. 1 year and 2 months gone just like that.
Too bad kids can’t learn these facts while they’re still young! How peculiar it is that when your young you don’t have the wisdom to know that time is so precious, and when you’re old you don’t have the energy to make the most use of your precious time. Oh well, life is good!
Anyone have any idea where exactly the turning point is where you stop wishing you were older, but you don’t yet wish you were younger?
