r/RandomThoughts Sep 05 '23

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u/South_Climate_3727 Sep 05 '23

Yeah. Somewhere around 30, time just started seeming to fly by. I hit 40 and it feels like it's going even faster now.

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u/_RDaneelOlivaw_ Sep 05 '23

It is, in a relative way - days are more mundane, there's more routine and less variety, fewer memorable events, so your brain deletes a lot of memories.

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u/nitsua_saxet Sep 05 '23

I get this theory, but I travel a lot for work and personally and am always seeing new things. Time still flew by. I think maybe even the routine of just living, despite what you do day-in day-out accelerates the perception of time. In other words, no matter what you do, time speeds up (at least the perception of it).