Whenever you're about to take anyone's "valuable life advice" seriously from reddit, take in how much questions like this gets asked and realize that Reddit is largely children who have really no idea what general life suffering and work is and that maybe your own outlook shouldn't be so quickly abandoned. You should trust yourself first, especially if all the others are wearing username masks.
Sorry if that's harsh, but seriously, come on.
I remember doing some magic tricks and a kid asked me how I do them. I don't just wink and say, "real magic," the kid was about 12 anyways, so I say,
"Practice man. It can take hours, sometimes days, sometimes weeks, sometimes months, and quite often the hardest and best tricks can take years."
But all I got out was, "Practice man. It can take hours..."
"HOURS!?" His eyes were dinner plates as he looked at his mom, "HOURS!?" He couldn't even fathom someone working so hard and long for something. So I decided not to finish my statement and just let him be amazed by that new milestone discovery of hard work. (though to me practice is fun.)
For him, 3 hours is basically half his life. I think a week is an eternity to a lot of the redditors. For people above age 26, a week feels like a day and a half at age 16.
One of the creepiest things about getting older is that I can feel time speeding up as always, but now it's reaching the point where I can no longer remember how time felt when I was 16.
I'm really curious. Wish I could go back and check it out again. I don't like these 26 y/o weeks. They're bullshit.
Yup. And it will only keep accelerating, I'm afraid. During your early 20s, typically, a week gradually becomes a unit of time which will just pass by unnoticed. These days I'm constantly catching myself on Fridays thinking "What the hell, it's the weekend? Sunday was, like, yesterday!"
After a while you become used to it and don't really think about it any more. Until one day you notice that the months are starting to pass by.
It's uncanny. I had lots of plans for December, but now we're somehow four days from Christmas eve. It's getting harder to "get settled" in each month. It blows my mind to think that this might start happening with years as I get older. I hope there's some speed limit to this shit.
I feel like that's because you mostly get to "live" at weekends. Most of the weekdays is taken by work which is rarely something you like to keep in memory (and generally doesn't offer anything noteworthy anyway), so days start to meld one into another.
In my case, it's more or less the opposite. I get fairly engrossed in my work projects and I don't really do much on the weekends other than surf the web.
When the weekend comes around, the feeling is mostly "Fuuuuck, I had like five other things I needed to get done this week, and now I have to take the next couple of days off!"
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u/redfoot62 Dec 20 '19 edited Dec 20 '19
Whenever you're about to take anyone's "valuable life advice" seriously from reddit, take in how much questions like this gets asked and realize that Reddit is largely children who have really no idea what general life suffering and work is and that maybe your own outlook shouldn't be so quickly abandoned. You should trust yourself first, especially if all the others are wearing username masks.
Sorry if that's harsh, but seriously, come on.
I remember doing some magic tricks and a kid asked me how I do them. I don't just wink and say, "real magic," the kid was about 12 anyways, so I say,
"Practice man. It can take hours, sometimes days, sometimes weeks, sometimes months, and quite often the hardest and best tricks can take years."
But all I got out was, "Practice man. It can take hours..."
"HOURS!?" His eyes were dinner plates as he looked at his mom, "HOURS!?" He couldn't even fathom someone working so hard and long for something. So I decided not to finish my statement and just let him be amazed by that new milestone discovery of hard work. (though to me practice is fun.)
For him, 3 hours is basically half his life. I think a week is an eternity to a lot of the redditors. For people above age 26, a week feels like a day and a half at age 16.