Does time always go faster?

Question

when you reach more mature years? I often feel there are not enough hours in the day to allow me to do everything I want to do

Answer 1

yes, it does. I am 56 and every day goes faster than the day before. I don't think any of us feels like time is going slower and thats probably because we don't think we will be able to achieve everything we want in our lifetime.

Answer 2

It's true. I once watched a documentary on this. They locked up a young man in an enclosed room for three days, and then they locked up an older man in that room for three days.

Each of them was asked what time of day they thought it was throughout the three days each of them was locked away.

It was found that the older man always thought the time further ahead than it really was, and also always ahead of what the time was thought by the younger man to be.

The experiment shows that as a person grows older, his sense of time is that it passes faster, than for a younger person.

Hey, can you all remember when a day or even a morning lasted a loooooooooooong time, when you were a kid?!

As for not enough time to do everything you would want to do, the mental and physical faculties also slows down as one grows older. A person loses something like 1% of his muscle mass every year from age 35 onwards, or something like that. As for mental faculty, I think that need not go that declining way - one can help it better there, by doing word puzzles, learn a new skill eg play a musical instrument or even just sing more often, write letters to your loved ones, learn to do up a website, etc.

Keep young - at heart!

Answer 3

I was always told that time only drags when you're bored or watching the clock. When we get older, especially after retirement, we don't watch the clock so much, and there always seems to be something we can do.

Of course, there is the fact that we take a more relaxed approach to doing anything because there are no deadlines, or anyone breathing down our necks - another way of saying we slow down!

Answer 4

as i age, the years are going by so fast. i mean look, this year is half gone already. whats up with that?? just yesterday i was in my twenties and really cute. the person i see in the mirror now actually has wrinkles and frown lines and a bad heart. i can't get up the stars without help sometimes, what happened to me so fast and where did the time go??? i don't know, but i can tell you this for sure, slow down and enjoy what you have today. take the time to notice everything around you. my once young mother turned 80 years yesterday, is in the hospital in a deep coma, not likely to return. i know life went to fast for her.

Answer 5

It's seems that time is moving faster these days. I thought it was because I was getting old why I thought this...but I hear youngsters saying the same thing. I didn't thing time went fast before I hit 30.
When I was a child...Christmas took ages to come around...now even my 10yr old grand daughter thinks Christmas comes quickly.
I think something sinister is going on with nature.

Answer 6

Time is both variable and relative. The variability we do not need to worry about unless you are building sat elites because time slows down or quickens up depending on gravitational pull and speed. But the variation is too slight to worry about. However time passing is relative to your activity. If you do a lot of things in a day it seems to pass slowly but if you don't do a lot just make your meals and watch TV as people sometimes do when they retire then time just seems to pass quickly

Answer 7

The older one gets the more you realize that there are so many more things you'd like to do that you hadn't counted on , in the time you think you might have left. Of cource , you'll never do them all but the plan's there, and you've got to have a plan.The plan don't fit the time , so it goes the way of the buffalo,way too fast.

Answer 8

It certainly seems that way, and I think there is a relationship between the passing of time, aging, and how our minds process these things.

When we were young kids, the days lasted forever, or so it seemed. That may be because everything to us was so new. We weren't thinking of what has passed, we were thinking of what was ahead.

That is just my theory. I do know that there are many paradigms in life, and there are many similarities between being young and growing old.

Oh, life..........

Answer 9

The problem is thinking about time, about days, hours.
One who does this is fragmenting the never ending flow of existence.
The atoms of our body and the breath that gives us life are as eternal and unchangeable as the eternal universe in which we live.
If you allow yourself to live up this understanding you will feel you have as much time to do everything you want as eternity itself.

Answer 10

I am 56 some days go fast & others drag so for me there still the same.Mind when your doing some thing interesting the time always zooms by which I would think is the norm for everyone.