Is time passing quicker??

Question

Obviously it isnt, but this year to me seems to be passing very quickley, and i have heard other people say the same thing, i have my own thoeries what about yours??

Answer 1

Yes, I think so! Its probably because the pace of life has speeded up,time just fritters away. According to James Gleick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, life is speeding up. Gleick is the author of Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, a book on the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of people no longer having free time.
There’s always something that needs to be done, something which could be done, or something which should have been done two weeks ago but which hasn’t been fit into the schedule yet.
Where is this free time going? We currently have access to more labor-saving devices than ever before. Microwave ovens make cooking and reheating food easier and faster than ever. With such innovations, one would think that everyone would have an abundance of free time to be spent doing absolutely nothing.
But reality doesn’t work that way. Our free time is frittered away, bit by bit, with hardly a second thought. Each person encounters more information each minute than ever before. Data surrounds us. Each second, we are forced to make decisions incorporating all available information. We are so busy doing things,time just passes by.

Answer 2

Hello! Ever since I left primary school, the days have sped by. I think I'll actually miss my sixth form once I leave and go to university. However, my post-adolescent childhood went so slowly and I often wondered what the future would hold. Now I'm in the "future", it's not as appealing as I thought. Besides that, I feel tired very quickly as well. I must take a siesta before five or I'll drop dead. Just out of interest, what's your theory about time passing quicker? Please tell us.

Answer 3

As you get older, time does seem to pass quicker. When, for example you were 2 years old, a year was half of your life time, when you hit 40, a year is obviously a 40th of your life time, so seems to pass much quicker!
Time is not a constant, so possibly, time has been accelerated for you this year! We wouldn't be able to tell if time was speeded up, as we would have no point of reference from the slower time!

Answer 4

Time is still 24 hours a day.As we grow older we do more work and less play.While working we do not pay attention to time and it goes by fast and we seem to have less of it to do things.We also put time frames on our jobs and lifes and forget to put life in our times.
When we were kids we spent most of our days playing and time was not a factor so the days sreatched forever.
In example is As a child Christmas took forever to come every year and as adults we get over Christmas and before we know it it is here again.

Answer 5

Yes it really does seem to be passing quicker this year, Chris Evans was even going on about that on his radio 2 show a few weeks ago and loads of people were texting in agreeing with him and it was a big mixed age group agreeing, I assumed it was my age, but obviously not.

Answer 6

Time starts to go faster when you start paying monthly bills and really accelerates after your third IRS audit. I'm told that it slows down somewhat when your financial situation smooth-es out and you can relax more, but by then your body starts to betray you. Ain't life a B!+ch?

Answer 7

Yes, time is passing quicker for me too...
The theory I believe in, from a Muslim's point of view, is that this is a signal for judgment day. The quicker time passes, the closer judgment day is...May God have mercy on us all

Answer 8

Yes as you get older time hastens that is your body clock changing like a world clock.

Answer 9

Yes it is but nobody is admitting it, good thing is when we reach pension we'll still have enough youth to enjoy it.

Answer 10

Once.. a latin american writer, Miguael Angel Asturius wrote: (to some)Century becomes minute, minutes become century.