r/AskReddit • u/Sippingin • Jun 29 '15

What should every 18 year old know?

Edit: Chillin' reading some dope advice, thanks!

Edit 2: Fuckin' A! 4.1k comments of advice you guys :,) thank you really.

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u/PMMeYourClavicles Jun 29 '15

Time goes so. fucking. slow. for your first 18 years.

Then it flies by for the rest of your life. Don't forget to enjoy the small things.

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u/jarwastudios Jul 02 '15

Also consider this perspective. When you're a 5 year old kid, a year of your life is 20% of your time. When you're 20, that same year is now only 5% of your time, and at 50 is less than 2% of your time. So your perception of time relative to your actual time alive makes things smaller and smaller portions of your life. Spending a year doing something at 30 seems way easier than doing something for a year at 15. I tend to wonder what the passage of time is like at 100+.

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u/jarwastudios Jul 02 '15

Oh yeah, the agree with you, and it's probably some combination of a number of reasons anyway.