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Posted by: BobC (bcorsale@earthlink.net) on 1/24/1998@12:33hrs:
My philosophical thoughts on why time seems to go by faster as we get older or conversely, never moves when we are young.
This perception is due to the fact that when we are young, life revolves around anticipation. These anticipated events are birthdays, Christmas, vacations, end of school years, becoming teenagers, going to high school or college, graduation day, drivers license, first cars, old enough to drink, etc. etc. etc.
This constant thought of something that's going to happen in a youngster's mind gives the impression that time is literally standing still and the awaited event will never occur and become reality.
So when all this anticipatory time has become reality and the youngsters have grown to adulthood, they now know how to better handle these situations, the anticipation level is not as great, and the feeling that time is just whizzing by now exists. When, in fact, the hour always had sixty minutes, the day 24 hours, and the span of measurement is never deviated.
So as mature middle aged individuals when we are inclined to say “time really flies as you get older”, the reality is that this is just part of the maturation process and everything is relative.
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