Since I'm coming up on my twenty-fifth birthday, I've been thinking about the relative nature of time. Essentially I've been musing on why it seems like time goes faster as you get older. Every year feels like it goes by faster then the previous. I remember when I was a kid summer vacation seemed to last a year and now 3 months passes faster than ever.
I guess it comes down to simple math. When you're 5, a year is 1/5 of your life. So it only make sense that they would seem much longer. But now as I'm turning 25 a year is only 1/25 of my life. I can only imagine the years fly by once you hit 40!
Other factors probably account for this feeling as well. Such as the amount of responsibilities we have. When I was a kid I had pretty much no responsibilities but now I have so much to think about and take care of, I can hardly find time for it all. I would think this would have to account for some of the feeling that time is speeding up. Either that or the millisecond we lost from the Chilean earthquake is hitting me harder than everybody else! :)
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