Why does time seem to pass faster when you grow older?

Question

As a child the summer's seemed to last for ever, as a young man time was rarely questioned, now in later life days appear to flash by and seasons follow one another in a blur..............whyzat?

Answer 1

I've thought of this question myself...and I think that it is not a matter of time passing faster when you grow older but that time is passing faster than it use too for everyone. Ask your kids. My children think time goes by quick.

Answer 2

When you are a child, you don't think about the concept of time, you have no responsibilties and your only worries are when to eat and how to entertain yourself. As you grow older, you have all the responsbilities of life on your shoulders so there just are never enough hours in a day to get all the things done you feel you need to! Maybe as adults we just need to take lessons from the kids occassionally and let go sometimes, just take a day to forget about mowing the grass, cleaning, running errands, etc.. and enjoy a day for what it is!

Answer 3

i have self belief we are only extra attentive to time-strains that placed us less than stress to get issues carried out that makes it sense as if time is passing swifter than in our youthful human beings. evaluate this, someone at artwork that usually watches the clock feels as if the artwork day will under no circumstances end; even if, the fellow who's beaten through his artwork load don't have adequate hours contained in the day. Then if we are having exciting, we actual lose music of time and merely savor existence.

Answer 4

there's the whole relatively thing, true--you know, one day is less and less, percentage wise, of your life as each day passes. But there is also the fact that as we experience life, we run out of new experiences, and start repeating ourselves. Assembly-line jobs, assembly-line lives--redundancy is the enemy, but it is an enemy that just can't be completely avoided. Ever notice that we get comfort from the familiar?

Answer 5

Because when you are 5, getting to 10 is twice your life experences(100%). When you are 50, 5 years is 10%...

Answer 6

Same number of hours in the day, more things to use up those hours as you get older though.

Answer 7

as a kid, you don't have to worry about anything really except maybe eating and playing... as an adult you have a career, bills, grocery shopping.. basically all responsibilities fall on your shoulders and there just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to get it all done

Answer 8

Time flys like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.

Answer 9

when ur a kid it all stretches out b4 u, now when your old, your nearer the end of the rope, so to speak. Doubt if this is an answer.

Answer 10

when you are older, you are always expecting the next day, while when you are a child, you just have fun;

No expectations like when you are an Adult

Answer 11

Oh my gosh, my days are gettin longer and I cant wait to grow up like you all........!!
nah kiddin

Its because u dont want to get old, and you tryin to go back as much as u can, but u cant.
And your always thinkin about, as much as u think, the time goes faster......



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