Hi All:) ..Why does it seem like time goes faster as you get older ?:)?

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Thanks, for answering, in advance!!:)

Answer 1

It's like this. Life is like riding on a train. When we are young, we are so curious about everything, we ask questions, and look out the windows at the scenery, wondering about the destination more. this makes the train move slower, or so it seems. The older we get. the less we observe the surrounding, starring into cosmopolitan magazines, cutting ourselves off from other people more, the trains moves faster...Next stop...DEATH

Answer 2

It's all about perception. When you're five years old, a year is one fifth of your life. That makes it seem like an impossibly long time, especially if you're five and have to wait until next year for something you really want.

In comparison, when you're 20, a year is only one twentieth of your life, and while the days don't exactly fly by yet, a year doesn't seem like the eternity it was at five.

By the time you're 50 and a year is only one fiftieth of the time you've experienced, a year whips by pretty quickly.

That's the main reason that time seems to go faster as we get older. Another factor is how we spend time. Children are incredibly focused in the now. They are totally present in moment, totally absorbed in whatever they're doing. As we get older and begin to do more and have more complex thought processes, we begin to perceive time a bit differently. Unfortunately, it's hard to quantify these kinds of perceptions, so it's hard to say how much this really impacts our perception of time as we get older.

Answer 3

I think it seems that time goes faster as you get older because you realize how valuable time is and how short our lives are. Once you have realized that you want more time, you want a longer life and you want more time in order to find happiness. Then you try to find love, make a family... and you try to do that as fast as possible. In the process you keep telling your self 'I dont have time!; I need to hurry because I will waste my life!'. After a while that is the only thing in your mind and you belive it!You start beliving there is no time for anything and you really do waste your life!

P.S.:But that is just my opinion :)

Answer 4

Because, when you're a child, you can't wait to grow up. Because you are looking forward to it....it seems like it's taking longer. Also, less responsibility makes time go by slower - when you're an adult, it's hard to get all of your responsibilities taken care of each day - so you're constantly wishing for more time - so time seems to go by faster.

Time seems to speed up when you graduate from college (or high school - if you don't go to college) because you're no longer living with the anticipation of completing something and getting your life started.

Then......you have children....and time really flies. You watch them grow so quickly.......and it really puts time in perspective.

Also, as you get older, you start to dread it. You dread getting grey hair, wrinkles, aching bones, and dying. When you're not looking forward to something, and you're dreading it, it comes at you a lot quicker.

This is an interesting tid bit - I once had an accounting job. Since I had to close the books each month....my entire focus became monthly. So that I felt like I was always working toward and against the end of the month. This made time go by fast....I would get to the end of the month and be amazed that 4 weeks had already gone by.

I think this shows that the perception of time is relative. I wonder if people who are filthy rich, and have other people taking care of their responsibilities - leaving them time for their personal accomplishments - experience time differently from those of us that have so little of it for ourselves.

Answer 5

As you age,generally speaking you have accomplished the most difficult tasks. Walking talking marrying family career or whatever in various order etc. Whilst you have been hurtling around getting these things done you suddenly find there is not much more to achieve!As a result you re activity rate drops which means time slows(theoretically) when in actual fact it hasn't. Time never stands still you/we just have more to do with it but not in the same capacity as before. so be busy as you can until you re dying day and time will always be on your side.

Answer 6

Actually it does...to our brains of course....as our brains absorb more and more information and we become busier and busier we lose track of time as a focus and it results in time FLYING by....a year today is like 6 months 20 years ago...believe me, once you are closer to the end, than the beginning, time goes painfully fast...I have already lived 31,535,000 minutes and have about 10,512,000 minutes left in my life so to speak...put it into hours...then days...it all gets shorter..so really I have approximately 175,200 hours which equates to about 7300 days or approximately 20 years left to go...give or take an accident or a heart attack here and there...you do the math...gets shorter faster no matter how you look at it............

Answer 7

When you're an infant, your first year is equal to 100% of your life. When you're five, one year is 20% of your life. When you're ten, one year is 10% of your life and so on. As you get older, each subsequent year of your life represents a smaller percentage of the whole, and seems to pass faster.

Answer 8

the older we get we need to accomplish more because time is running out. so we tend to work harder to get our house in order. with age comes the realization that we dont have a full dance card anymore and so we try to do as much as possible to stay on the dance floor. i think we also finally develope good work habits and try to do as many tasks in an 8-10 hour day as possible.

Answer 9

Time is a matter of how you are perceiving it, Einstein once said about time, ''when you burn your hand time goes slow till the pain stops, when I have a pretty girl on my lap time goes much to fast'' I'm older now and I've learned to stay in the moment and time is now.

Answer 10

Probably because as adults we have so much to do and so much we want to get accomplished - so the time just flies. Although, it seems like lately time has been going fast regardless - my 11 y/o little cousin said to me the other day that he felt the year had just flown by LoL.