Why is it that time seems to accelerate more rapidly with age?

Question

It goes by faster and faster every year.

Answer 1

You asked--I answer---it is a thing called relativity (better termed in this case to age/time differential ) and is thus explained-------When you are one day old your total life experience is gauged by that one day and it is seemingly endless because you are not even familiar with where it begins and ends---by the time you are say---10 years old ---a year is fully one tenth of your entire life (days and hours relate accordingly) ----by the time you are say 50----a year is only one fiftith of your llife---so a year IS CONSIDERABLY SHORTER in relative terms to a fifty year old in comparison to a ten year old----THAT IS WHY THERE IS A SENSE OF ACCELERATED TIME AS WE AGE---a year goes by five times faster for a fifty year old person than for a 10 year old-----------Hope this helps-------LARRY J7

Answer 2

Sure seems that way. I think as you age you just notice your grasp on time is slipping away faster than you ever imagined. Suddenly there's all these things you want to do like getting a great job, falling in love, getting married, buying a house, having kids that you have to squeeze in before you die. That's when you get it that life really is too short.

Answer 3

The longer you're here, the more "been there, done that" answers do you have to events in life that others find so new and awesome. Kind of a boredom sets in, and you have other things to pay attention to, like the everyday taking care of your children, cleaning house, going to and returning from work, paying bills, driving cars, . . ., and by the time you have the time to "stop and smell the flowers", the flowers may be partly out of bloom from aging, so, . . . stop and smell the flowers. There's nothing that slows the clock down as much as that. God Bless you.

Answer 4

I totally know what you mean...after I turned 21 the years started flying by now being 27 it's like where the hell did those years go and what the hell did I do with them?

Man...we laugh all the time about now we know why old people get up early cuz it's like you are dying, you will be dead soon we can sleep then! lol

:)That is why we have to live each and every day...no excuses ya know.

Answer 5

Probably because the older we get the more we realise that time is running. We begin doing more things unlike our former lazy self, action makes time run faster.

Answer 6

Because every fraction of your life is a smaller proportion of your memories and experience; therefore, the more years under your belt, the smaller fraction that is of your total experience...and we keep moving forward and not back so time accelerates for us.

Answer 7

Hmm, I noticed that too. I think it's because the older you are, the more you know about your likes and dislikes so you're able to weed out doing the activities you don't like and do the things you enjoy. And time flies when you're having fun.

Answer 8

When we were younger, each event that we looked forward to was at a great distance, ie. end of school, end of summer, end of school, end of summer. Now as we are older, we have more things to look forward to and they are closer together, ie. Friday, Monday, Friday, Monday. Next thing we know, it has been 10 years of Fridays and Mondays and we have missed everything in between.

Answer 9

Because you have less of it. It's like a roll of toilet paper, it goes faster when there isn't much left.

Answer 10

I heard that it is because we are continually loosing brain cells, and that our perception of time is therefore altered (less information being processed at every given moment). (kinda a depressing reason)