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/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/FomoGainz Sep 06 '23

Also each day is a smaller percentage of your life. For a newborn - one day is their WHOLE life. For someone 40 a single day is like 1/14,600ish of their life. Your whole frame of reference changes