2007-06-25 08:35:19 · 39 answers · asked by amandawoods 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Thanks to everyone who answered. All your answers have been good so far. XXXXX
2007-06-25 09:09:22 · update #1
Because as adults we fill up our days with more responsibility leaving less and less time for the enjoyable things in life. So where we used to get 100 hours of playtime (example) in a week and had tons of fun, we now only get 20 and that's all the fun time we had during the week. So when we get 100 hours of fun in, it is now 5 weeks later instead of one. At least that's how I see it, and how it feels to me.
2007-06-25 08:38:36 · answer #1 · answered by ellusionary 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think its because you start doing the normal things much slower then usually. So lets say that you go walking for 20 minutes a day. @ age 30 it would seem like 20 minutes but @ age 50 its more like 35. People just get the impression that time is speeding past them.
2007-06-25 08:40:05 · answer #2 · answered by Dj Volt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple! Time is relative! Look at it this way:
Imagine you are five years old, you want something special, say a bicycle. Your parents say you must wait until you are ten!
That is your whole life all over again!!
So, imagine you are fifty, and you want to retire, you are told you cannot retire until you are fifty five. You have to wait the same five years, but for you that is only a tenth of your life!
The older you are, the less relevance to time, so the quicker it goes!
2007-06-25 08:41:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
AHA! Trick question. Time goes by at exactly the same rate... hehe, sorry.
As you get older, you start to make real plans for your life. Naturally, your going to start running out of time to do all these things because there are also numerous distractions that impede your progress, and make your precious, precious time seem to vanish into thin air.
2007-06-25 08:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by holtebr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the percentage of your total lifetime that each unit of time represents keeps getting smaller.
i.e. A year to a two-year-old is half their life,
to a 20-year-old it's only 5%, and so on.
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2007-06-25 08:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by Peggy Sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we are used to the same old thing, we see the same thing day after day and every day feels like the last because we don't do anything new like we did when we were younger.
If you want time to go slower you have to seek out new things.
2007-06-25 08:38:40 · answer #6 · answered by David Blumpy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we have more things to do, which take up our time. I remember when I'd have to wait an hour for something and I'd think "Aw an hour! that's going to be forever." Now an hour seems to go by in a few seconds
2007-06-25 08:37:52 · answer #7 · answered by Mekana 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because when we were young we were not consumed by how much time we really had. We didn't have to plan as much. We didn't work as much. We didn't care to know and do as much as we want to now.
2007-06-25 08:40:46 · answer #8 · answered by Giannina V 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but it sure seems like it. Remember when we were little it seemed like it took forever for Christmas to come? Good Lord I sound like an old fart! =p
2007-06-25 08:39:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We all try to do too much!!!
It would be great to go back to a time where the norm was...Dad working, Mom raising children and no traveling sports teams until college! : )
2007-06-25 08:37:35 · answer #10 · answered by Buff 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋