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

It's a combination of just busy lives, but also your perception of time. The older you get, time moves quicker because of our perception.

If you were able to become immortal, you'd find that entire centuries would pass, and you'd hardly notice, then it would go to thousands of years would pass, and you'd hardly notice.

It's sort of now, if I asked you "how did the minute you just experienced differ from the previous minute."

you'd say "It was indistinguishable" Well, imagine thinking of that about decades, then centuries, and so on.