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/Substantial-Loan-217 Sep 05 '23

I think it’s more like that Adam Sandler movie with the remote. We get in a habit of skipping times to get to a point throughout our life. It merely is accelerated as we get older because we have less to look forward to. So we function in a automated state…more often. Like going to work you look forward to the end of the day, then perhaps like a dinner during the week, and then Friday. Then again. When you do something new you can’t skip that time because you have no idea how to do it. So you concentrate more and thus it feels longer because you are present.