Why does time go faster as you get older?

Question

Why is everyone presuming I am old!! haha!!

I am only 22 but time is still starting to go alot faster then when I was 15-16.

Answer 1

As you grow older you get many responsibilities and jobs to be done with in specific periods. So you start racing against time.
But time keeps its pace and we loose our pace.Thus time appears to go faster.

Answer 2

Physical time is just a measurement of bodies in motion, a cycle of events; it doesn't exist in reality... Hence you always feel the same age throughout your life.

You might think that there is a tomorrow, but that is just an illusion of the mind (physiological time)… You can only live in the now, when does tomorrow ever arrive?

What the mind does is draw from a past experience (which is dead) and projects into a future that does not exist.

Thought is measurement and time is the motion!

Life is poetry in motion!

Answer 3

This truly sincere question has given an opportunity to the younger lot to take a dig and earn 2 points for indulging in pleasure. We must thank the old guy, we take the dig knowing he is mature enough not to feel hurt. But it should hurt us knowing what gives us pleasure.
Anyway, coming to the question, I always thought the old guys had nothing much to do and therefore it was difficult for them to pass time - that had led me to believe as though time would seem to move slow for them. I still find it difficult to believe that time seems to run faster as you grow older. I have seen them counting minutes and hours to the next meal time or bed time.

Answer 4

Because your life is getting shorter, so the faster life goes by the shorter your life is, till in the end time has gone by so fast, and life is no more, you will know this to be true when your life passes by you in a blink of an eye.

Answer 5

Well if you think time is going too fast at 22 years old then I don't hold out much hope for you by the time you reach my age.

Answer 6

I think we lose the joy and innocence of being young. We then move into a lifestyle where things are serious and often unpleasant and we hope each working day goes by as fast as possible , we also begin realising how things work and all the enthusiasm wears away.

Answer 7

It certainly does seem like it doesn't it. I can't believe that I am nearly 50. I still think of myself as young. It is only when I see my eldest son (27) when I realise how old I am! I remember when I was six and waiting for my 7th birthday, I clearly remember thinking that I had been six for soooooo long! Ans summer holidays seemed to last forever as did waiting for Christmas to come! Nowadays, I am not long back from my summer hols and am preparing for Christmas!

Answer 8

It starts to speed up when you reach 15 because everything starts getting really exciting, but by the time you reach 39, if you live that long, then it starts to slow down again.....

Answer 9

Our desires are becoming complicated as we grow older We got lot of things we want to acquire.We lost our innocence and simplicity.
The young people specially the children are naive and have simple desires. They are easily amuse from simple things. Their are enjoying the timeless now. They don't care about tomorrow and have few pains of yesterdays.

Answer 10

Hmmmmmmmm Good question...i've always wondered this.....Is it because the older u get, the wiser and more knowledgable u become, that things that once interested and excited you (took your mental time) don't do anything for you anymore.
Gotjilla...what gives u the right to call the questioner an idiot...it's a perfectly good question, you IDIOT!