you seem to get bored quicker when young for example sitting about the house watching brain dead daytime tv, used to take a age, or the summer hoilidays lasted years, now brain dead tv is ok and summer flies by why
2007-09-20 05:40:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Because as Einstein discovered, time is not a fixed quantity, like the speed of light. Time is relative. We experience time as a proportion of how long we have been alive. So a day when you are 6 years old is a higher proportion of your life than a day when you are 60 years old. Therefore it seems to last longer when you are young.
2007-09-20 05:53:07 · answer #1 · answered by kitty 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a few reasons:
First, as an adult or as you grow older, your responsibilities increase (job, more school work, errands, e.t.c.) and so you have less time for those 'fun' or 'brain-dead' activities and thereby it seems that time is going by faster.
Second, as a child your mind is still learning and taking in things, especially the concept of time and when you're older 'you get it' and you have a better and more realistic concept of the hours in a day and you are more keenly aware of their passing.
Interesting question to think about....Hope this helps.
2007-09-20 05:50:18 · answer #2 · answered by jeristhin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The "time is relative" statement sounds pretty right.
But it seems that when you're totally bored, things would drag out more because of the fact you think they are. If you think that time is going fast, your mind would allow you to think of the times where time really did seem like it was going fast.
And the young teenagers get bored easily with so much of free time.
2007-09-20 06:45:25 · answer #3 · answered by Banana Hero [sic] 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that time definitely appears to pass quicker as one ages because our measure of time is compared with the time we have already experienced. A child of say nine will subconsciously regard the following year as something like one ninth of their life to date whereas a pensioner would see it as maybe a seventieth.
2007-09-20 05:57:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess when we are young, we are more active and we have less patience. We always want to indulge in activities to keep out of boredom. But as and as we age, we get tired easily, our body hurts, we just want to sit and rest. And our experiences with life teaches us to be patient.
2007-09-20 05:49:48 · answer #5 · answered by SS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you are five, a year is 1/5th of your life
When you are 100, it's 1/100th
Time is relative,
2007-09-20 05:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by Sophie B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋