Do you think the older you get the faster times goes by?

Answer 1

Yes I do agree to some degree that the older someone gets the faster time does go by. A child has a tendency to live in their own little world and really doesn't have a view on life outside their own. Children basically think about themselves as a general rule and don't have they same kinds of cares that a adult may have. As children turn into adults they have more responsibilities like a full-time job, bills to pay for, marriage and a family. Those responsibilities have a tendency to keep them so busy that adults really don't have time for anything else. Time starts to fly by because there is so many things to do and so many other people to take care of. Yes, yes I do feel that time goes by faster when people get older. Although it may be true that time does fly by at the same time it all is worth it. Just remember to absorb every moment of life and stop to smell the roses. SMILE

Answer 2

The older you get the more history you accumulate which makes it seem to go faster. your past experiences add up to create that illusion. that means you are having a good life.
It's hard to imagine how slow people in prison perceive time.
If you think "time" is just flying by..be happy with what you have experienced.
Think of time as a "bubble" behind you...the more you know, live or experience, the bigger the bubble grows pushing you ahead faster and faster. Accumulation.

Answer 3

Yes because as you get older things change. You want to succeeded more and be successful, encourge people, be positive, give and help more, which makes time go by real fast because you are having a full days schedule. When you were playing with friends on the bike time could never be so slow. It took like 5 years just to get through a weeks school schedule so you could stay at a friends house on the weekend.
Take Care!

Answer 4

Here' my favorite approach to this question.

When you are fourteen years old, a month is only (1/12)(1/14) of your life.

If you are 65 years old, a month is (1/12)(1/65) of your life...a much smaller number.

So in relative terms, each portion of time...a minute, a second, an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year...gets smaller and smaller proportionate to your own experience as you get older.

Time does pass by.

And maybe there is another reason.

When you are young, you can't wait for things to happen, so time seems to creep by.

As you get older, you get more and more conscious of what your ultimate destination is going to be and so you would like for time to creep, but perversely it flies by.

Answer 5

I used to think that elderly people who told me that time went by faster as you got older was full of crap until I turned 35. It does seem like a year goes by much quicker now.

Answer 6

I think that the older we get the more of a routine we get in so it seems like everyday is the same and so we forget how much time has gone bye. When we were younger things were so new and different all the time that it felt like time went slower. That's all I can come up with... hope it helps!

Answer 7

Definitely. I noticed this in middle school and ever since then it goes faster and faster. I can't believe I'm been married 32 years, raised 2 children and have 4 grandchildren. I thought I was still in my 20's. ;)

Answer 8

Yes, it seems so.

The reason I think is that when you are younger, things change more rapidly in your life...you go to a new grade in school, get a new teacher, make new friends, your body is still developing, so you get new clothes, do different activities.
When you go to college, you usually move away from home, get your own apartment, stop being a student and get a job.

When you get older, you just dont have as many changes to encounter as when you were young.

Answer 9

yes. i actually wrote a paper on just this. although the age range was not varied enough to show a correlation with age and time perception, there was a link.

my theory is that as we grow older, more and more of what we do becomes shunted down to habits..automatic actions performed with little or no conscious awareness. and the less we are consciously aware of the passage of time, by engaging with the world and whatnot, the less time we percieve to have passed. therefore, as we grow older, we consciously percieve time as going by faster.

Answer 10

No, your concept of time gets shorter the older you get so it seems like time goes by faster.

It took a minute for one minute to go by when I was a child. When I'm an old man it'll still take a minute.

Make sense?