One day I was 18, then I woke up, and I was 22, soon to be 23. Am I the only one that sees it this way?
2007-10-18 10:13:42 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
It's not just you, as you can see from the other responses and it gets even worse in your 30s (I can testify to that) and I guess in your 40s as well (can't testify to that but I'm really scared now!).
The problem is the loss of time. When in school, there is all of this TIME...the boredom watching the clock during class, the long summers, etc. The older you get (until retirement I guess) the less time you have. College is a blur (for more reasons than one *hiccup*) and then when you get a job, you're time is stolen for 8 hours a day plus lunch plus travel time, then you have kids and there goes all remaining time. So with most of the time taken by others, there is very little time to live. And the time living is what you remember, so you used to have 16 hours a day to live, then maybe 10 or 12 in college, then maybe 3 or 4 when working, then perhaps 1 hour in an entire week when you're working parent.
When someone is alive only one hour a week, four hours a month, 48 hours a year, those years just fly by. And you're left wondering where it all went. Well, it went to your kids and job and traffic.
So enjoy every single second that you're left with while you have it!
2007-10-18 10:46:05 · answer #1 · answered by AJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At 10 years old, a year is only 1/10th of your life compared to 1/5th when you were 5. so saying your 22 the next year will only be 1/23rd of what you've know as life. Now imagine being 42, for example a year then compared to their entire existance is only 1/42nd of thier life. Anyways, that's it in a nutshell, hope it helps.
2007-10-18 10:24:34 · answer #2 · answered by noiro3333 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my dearest 'so fresh so clean', I so enjoy how slow your life is really going. It seems like yesterday I was very sick with not only morning sickness, but all day sickness. Now my son and 9 year-old grandaughter visit. The year seems like a week.
Live every day like it's your last, even if you are only 10 years old. Like my late fiance', it just might be. Oh how happy I am doing just that.
2007-10-18 11:11:20 · answer #3 · answered by jjoy4444 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. I think we see life this way because after 18 you have many more life choices to make on your own and much more responsibilities to accept.
2007-10-18 10:17:43 · answer #4 · answered by Sweet Brown Sugar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It happened to me after 21, it seems like time has flown, I'm 33 now and I don't know where the past 12 years have gone.
2007-10-18 10:17:10 · answer #5 · answered by bye bye 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm still in my 20's but it seems like every year is faster than the one before it. It's a vicious cycle and I'm not sure when or if it changes or ends.
2007-10-18 10:32:50 · answer #6 · answered by Consuming Fire 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. When you are older the only things you have to look forward to are paying bills and deadlines and of course it seems to come faster than you want it to. When you are a kid you are always looking forward to something like vacation, summer or christmas that time seems to creep.
2007-10-18 10:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by cz73 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not your imagination, friend. 66 is breathing down my
neck--have no idea what happened to the years between
birth and 66. I may never know. Enjoy every day no matter
the age. Strange, eh???
2007-10-18 10:18:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once I had a child life started speeding up. I had my first kid at 18.
2007-10-18 10:17:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
for me it started speeding up when i turned 17, it goes by tooo fast i'm already going to be 19 in a couple months!
2007-10-18 10:22:17 · answer #10 · answered by -мari♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋