2007-01-28 20:44:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
because youth is waisted on the young.
2007-01-28 20:50:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, when we arrive in this world we have to get used to how time works here. We have to learn the meaning of "wait" and "later".
Secondly, because we have had less of it. When you are three years old, a week is still a large fraction of your experience.
There's a Larkin poem about a train trip. Larkin writes of the activities he observes passing before him through the train window, and then of the passengers, bored and indifferent with "only the children" looking out, eyes pressed to the glass with excitement.
Once in my life I got on a train in Sheffield at six a.m. and I had a similar experience. In the early hours the train felt like a cross-country holiday, peaceful and a touch exotic. But further south it had become dull, the 7.42 from Bedford that came after the 7.26 and before the 8.05. By the Hertfordshire border it had become just another commuter train, all crammed with standing men and filled up with broadspreading newspapers, drifting into London St. Pancras ten minutes late for a 9.30 finish.
I was once sent a lovely piece by a friend that said (I paraphrase) 'When we are young, we are longing to get older. We proudly tell everyone at a party "I'm seven and a half". Ask a young person who old they are and they will say "I'm soon going to be thirteen." They may be only eleven and three months, but they're still going to be 13 soon. Late in life, the half comes back. "I'm 82 and a half", the lady you give your seat to in the bus will say with a warm smile.
So enjoy being your age, whatever it is. Be glad to be 54, or 46, or 67.... and live in delight until you are a hundred and a half.'
2007-01-30 06:12:42 · answer #2 · answered by MBK 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a culture that is focused on youth it is percieved that your best years are when you are young. Childhood however is too young because you do not have the options to enjoy life in an adult way.
Children therefore are imbued with the idea that they will only be happy when the grow up.
Having grown up, we pass through this sunny afternoon of money in the pocket and little responsibility. By the early evening and this time has passed, we begin the slow descent into regret.
As a consequence of all this, time seems to drag when you are a kid, drifts past us in early adulthood...and gradually increases speed as we lose the ability to slow it down as we get older.
2007-01-28 20:55:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When we're young we look at everything more closely - we skim when we are older; even if we haven't seen it all before we think we have. When you go somewhere new the journey seems to last and last and yet on the way back you recognise the landscape and it takes far less time.
2007-01-28 20:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by Em 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When i was a child many years ago time did matter all I wanted was to grow up.Now the time flys
2007-02-01 03:29:59 · answer #5 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Young children live for the moment, adults live in the past or future.
2007-01-29 00:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by Presea 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in childhood you don't think of time. you simply don't understand the real meaning of it yet. and then, the more time has passed, the less has left...
2007-01-28 21:47:54 · answer #7 · answered by Top_secret 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they are so busy being in the "now" that their whole perception of time is different than an adult.
2007-01-28 20:52:01 · answer #8 · answered by Cynthia D 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
because when your a child you don't realise how precious time is and when you get older you realise exactly that!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-30 05:41:52 · answer #9 · answered by hayley d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋