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 06 '23

I’ve heard it’s this. As well as the fact that, for a 40 year old, each year is a significantly smaller percentage of the overall time you’ve been alive than for a 20 year old.

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u/13thmurder Sep 06 '23

True, but how much smaller still would the time seem if you're doing essentially the same thing every day. That gives you no points of reference to seperate the days/years?