I've noticed this a bit.
2007-01-21 19:12:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
absolutely. by the time i hit thes age of eleven-i turned twelve in 5 minutes.
2007-01-21 19:15:43 · answer #1 · answered by curt w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have also noticed this. I am 54 years old and time seems to be constantly speeding up.
I have my own theory on this although I have no idea whether there is any acuracy to it or not...here goes...
when you were 5 years old it took 20% of your lifetime to get from one Christmas to another. When you are 50, it only takes 2%. (1 year out of 5 as opposed to 1 year out of 50).
When you are 10 it is roughly 5% of your life from Christmas to summer holidays but when you are 50 it is reduced to 1%.
My theory is that what stays constant is how fast a specific percentage of your life seems to take to pass, ie, what was 10% of your life at age 20 will seem to have taken as long to pass as what is 10% of your life at age 60. So since at age 60 you are three times older than you were at age 20, things will seem to go past three times as fast as they did when you were younger.
Hope I explained that clearly enough. Like I said at the beginning, I have no idea if there is any validity to my theory, it's just out of my experience and thinking with no scientific experimentation at all. Bena
2007-01-22 03:26:23 · answer #2 · answered by Bena 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's because as we grow older, people begin to ask more of us and then all of a sudden we're juggling jobs, school, family, friends, and all the other things in life that make it hectic and rushed. So perhaps when we finally have free time, we realize that days, weeks, months, or even years have passed us by.
Somewhere along that line we lose sight of what is truly valuable in this world. People rush by completely ignoring all the beautiful things set out for us in the world, that is why I think kids are happy and adults (the vast majority at least) are not. They enjoy things, we rush things. They live life, we kill it.
2007-01-22 03:19:10 · answer #3 · answered by ozarugold51 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-01-22 03:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by Destiny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it seems to be that way for me as well. I've always heard that it's because each year is a smaller percentage of your total life than the ones before. I don't know if that's true, but it makes sense to me.
2007-01-22 03:20:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definitely, but it wasn't always the case. When I was a kid, it seemed like time was an eternity. I miss those days.
2007-01-22 03:19:19 · answer #6 · answered by Just me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are a young child a year is a large portion of your life and goes by slowly. When you are a grown adult a year is a much smaller portion of your life and goes by quicker
2007-01-22 04:12:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I can remember how time used to drag when I was a kid. Now, it is Monday...I blink...and it is Thursday and I have not gotten anything done!
2007-01-22 03:15:22 · answer #8 · answered by bashnick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you become more and more busy with years.
2007-01-22 03:22:16 · answer #9 · answered by Natalya Ch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, seems to.
2007-01-22 03:20:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋