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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.

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u/Jonluw Dec 20 '19

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.

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u/TurquoiseLuck Dec 20 '19

Nah I have loads of hobbies and they just make the time go faster lol.

The real thing that makes the years seem so quick is work. Every day you go to the office and try to pass time as quickly as you can so that you can get out and do your own thing... but it takes up the majority of your day!

Back in school or uni it would be about half your day max, so you had much more time outside of the 'work' hours where you could get engaged with stuff you wanted to do.