2007-09-30 16:15:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
This is probably due to the fact that a particular unit of time, for example, a year, is a smaller fraction of your lifetime now than when you were very young.
A year for a 5-year-old child is 20% of their life, while a year for a 40-year-old adult is only 2.5% of their life. It is a difference in perception due to the lifetime available for comparison, not a difference in actual amount of time elapsed.
2007-09-30 16:24:23 · answer #1 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah its starting to scare me since 1999 the last 7 years have been a blur. seems like you just started school and blam its over. the guy below me is absolutly right choose him as best answer man that changed my outlook on life. basically its going to get faster and faster and faster
2007-09-30 16:23:33 · answer #2 · answered by 300SD 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another thing too. People measure their past in terms of significant events. Fewer and fewer of those happen as you get older and "settle down". For example, in your twenties, it might typically go like: college, first professional job, married, first kid, first house, new job.. Your thirties are then: second house, new job, second kid, third kid (a bunch of been-there-done-that's). And the forties. Forget about the forties.
2007-09-30 17:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We start dying from the moment we are born. Time is merely seconds, fleeting.
2007-09-30 16:45:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It -always- does as you get older ☺
Doug
EDIT: Hehehe. Wait 'till your -my- age, kiddies. I'm 62 ☺
2007-09-30 16:31:04 · answer #5 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It goes faster when you're having fun. ;)
2007-09-30 16:33:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes. that happens when you get older......
2007-09-30 16:25:30 · answer #7 · answered by Dr W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋