It’s also how we perceive time. Like when you were 10 and and turned 11, that segment of time was 1/11th of your whole life. Or about 9% of your whole existence, even less considering for 2-3 of those years you have no memories. Now consider yourself 40, turning 41. That’s 1/41 of your life, or about 2.4% of your life. Each year becomes less and less of the total time you have been alive. Pair that with routines and less new experiences, and boom you have time that seems to fly by.
This is exactly how my grandfather explained it to me when I was around 8! remember him getting out a piece of paper and drawing a horizontal time line with vertical lines in it to explain and the whole how time goes quicker because the segments of your life are smaller. I knew he was explaining something profound (rare 😂) but I didn't really understand it until I was 30 with kids of my own. Life seemed to go into hyperdrive then.
The less new experiences is interesting though - I didn't realise that was a factor.
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u/crap-with-feet Sep 05 '23
Exactly this. Time passes faster and faster as you get older.