{"id":2972,"date":"2010-12-05T04:40:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/2972\/i-think-my-watch-is-fast\/"},"modified":"2010-12-05T04:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T09:40:28","slug":"i-think-my-watch-is-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/2972\/i-think-my-watch-is-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think My Watch is Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why does time seem to move faster the older you get?\u00a0 I know I\u2019m not the only one who has experienced this feeling.\u00a0 My grandmother and her friends used to talk about it often.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When I was little, five years was an inconceivable period of time.\u00a0 A year was like an eternity.\u00a0 A month felt like eons.\u00a0 A week took a century.\u00a0 A day was almost a lifetime.\u00a0 An hour felt like a season and a minute was just too long.\u00a0 Especially to wait.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, in my 50\u2019s, five years seems to go by faster than the month of February.\u00a0 A year is over in less than a week.\u00a0 A month seems like just a few days.\u00a0 A week is really just a couple of hours.\u00a0 A day flies by before I can turn around.\u00a0 An hour is a breath and a minute is less than a blink.\u00a0 Unless I\u2019m waiting.\u00a0 Then time goes back to the way it was when I was about 7.\u00a0 Funny how that works.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This time thing didn\u2019t change overnight for me.\u00a0 There\u2019s been a steady acceleration with each passing year.\u00a0 It just became noticeable once I hit 30.\u00a0 Makes me wonder how fast time will go by when I reach my 80\u2019s, if I\u2019m lucky to stay around that long.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I used to think that the acceleration was caused by the fact that my Demands List was fuller as a 30-something adult than when I was a child.\u00a0 With having so much to do it made the time just seem to go by faster.\u00a0 That was when I was working 12 hours a day and still trying to keep the house, the man, and the kid going.\u00a0 Now even though I\u2019m a stay at home grandmother, time passing is still going faster, which sort of blows that hypothesis.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another reason I\u2019ve thought might cause this is, maybe, by the time we turn 30 or so, we\u2019ve done so many things repeatedly throughout our lives that we don\u2019t have any corresponding time memory of these actions.\u00a0 Those wonderful auto-pilot routine things like brushing our teeth, getting dressed, driving to work or whatever.\u00a0 When we are kids we fully acknowledge the time that it takes to do the routine things in life.\u00a0 As an adult there are days I can\u2019t seem to remember if I did some of them or not.\u00a0 Except maybe getting dressed.\u00a0 Especially when it\u2019s cold outside.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is it caused by too much to do in a day?\u00a0 Is it just a perception thing?\u00a0 Physics, maybe?\u00a0 Possibly some weird, late night, Twilight Zone rerun thing?\u00a0 Or, is it that time really does fly when you\u2019re having fun?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why does time seem to move faster the older you get?\u00a0 I know I\u2019m not the only one who has experienced this feeling.\u00a0 My grandmother and her friends used to talk about it often. When I was little, five years was an inconceivable period of time.\u00a0 A year was like an eternity.\u00a0 A month felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[69,323],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life-2","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}