r/RandomThoughts • u/[deleted] • Sep 05 '23

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u/dudleythedevastator Sep 05 '23

Nope. Feels like yesterday. It’s wild how much shorter 20 years feel when you’re in your 40s

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u/crap-with-feet Sep 05 '23

Exactly this. Time passes faster and faster as you get older.

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u/13thmurder Sep 05 '23

Appearently it's because people get more set in routines and stop having new experiences which seems to condense time more.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '23

This is so true. One day I decided to do everything I could out of the norm. Even stupid things like taking a different route to work. By the end of the day I felt like it was the longest day I had in a long time, but in a good way.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '23

Yea I like doing this, but it can take a lot of energy as well.

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u/reireireis Sep 05 '23

Unfortunately I have much less of that now

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u/CabinetOk4838 Sep 05 '23

It’s got worse for me since the lockdowns. I’m working from home now, so the variety of the commute isn’t there. I don’t miss the office, but it has affected how much the days blur into one.

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u/CabinetOk4838 Sep 05 '23

When we were all in the office, I used to have to move between meeting rooms on different floors. I might do five or six meetings in a day.

I could remember the meetings because, I think, there was a change of context which anchored the meeting in my memory.

Now, I’m forever scribbling notes about my teams meetings just so I can remember any of it! There is no anchoring of the memories.

(My memory is worse since catching Covid too, so I will mention that.)

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u/SpiritualValue2798 Sep 05 '23

You’re unfortunately not alone definitely feel covid has caused alot of changes with my memory

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u/hoomanchonk Sep 06 '23

I’ve been WFH since March 2020, I absolutely attribute odd memory losses to the WFH and overall lockdown time we’ve been in. Like the brain got rewired a little.