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#189220 - 09/01/09 08:31 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: ]
gims Offline
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Registered: 01/16/07
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My brain won't cooperate... anne, do you mind giving me a search word or phrase to bring me to a study, or two, so I can read up on this (sounds applicable and interesting)? Everything I come to with the words/phrasing I'm trying is garbage... thanks. (google or bing? - the results can vary, I've found)

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#189227 - 09/01/09 09:50 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: Lola]
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Time is not a friend to the elderly or even once we are on the downside of 50. It's a fact and nothing will change it. The key is to try to ignore the obvious and enjoy the time we are in right now. Don't long for the past and worry about the future we may not even have one SO enjoy the present...Grab all the gusto you can get and the sense of it all be damned...
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#189232 - 09/01/09 10:11 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: gims]
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LOL! Anne's got me googling as well..."perception of time and aging". However, most of what was brought up i.e. Cambridge Journals were "locked", as were other academic researches, and the rest were forum discussions which did not bear cited authorities. Even if they did, I reckon, it would be just too scientific for me. Anyway...here's what I came across. And, guess where? On a site on Patek Philippe. Guess if one googles time...chances are one would also be referred to watches and clocks. LOL!

"- AGE - I find that children and the young tend to think that it takes an eternity for time to pass. This was certainly my own experience. As one ages, time seems to slip by and then fly-by. I find that sometimes I even "lose" whole days. This phenomenon is the assessment of the passage of time vs a body of experience. This is something that is very difficult to explain, as it relates to the amount of a person's past experience influencing the perception of time. Thus, a child, because it has not been alive a long time and has a smaller body of experience, will actually measure a specific period of time vs this. Having this fairly high ratio will give a child to perceive period of time to seem longer than it actually is. It explains why as we grow older and have more "time" behind us, that the same period of time seems shorter. Of course, because of the complexity of this argument, there are many schools of thought and debate is inevitable. Also, as a child our metabolic rate tends to be higher, relating to the higher growth rate. In the elderly, the metabolic process slows, affecting time perception." - Time Zone -

I guess, I'm happy with that explanation...for now...because as to the percentages, it turned up a lot of variables.


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#189247 - 09/02/09 01:34 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: Lola]
jabber Offline
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Registered: 02/17/05
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Okay Lola, that makes sense. I recall when I was little, Sundays
dragged on forever. Now the weeks flit passed. Fifty years felt like a roller coaster ride, they disappeared so fast. Good Lord willing, I'll fulfill whatever I'm destined to accomplish.

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#189318 - 09/03/09 07:41 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: ]
Dotsie Offline
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Registered: 07/09/08
Posts: 23647
Loc: Maryland
Regardless of how fast time flies, all that matter is that you're having fun. "Time flies when you're having fun." That's what Mom always said.

So ladies, are we having fun?

gims, I work from home so my days are also interrupted. So far today:

-meet the exterminator out front to show him where the huge bee hive is so he can deal with it

-take dog to vet because she's scratching and we can't figure out why (neither could the vet-they gave her benadryl-$48.00)

-take daughter to work

-do laundry

-stop by dad's for a quick visit since I was away for two days

When working from home, I am a major multi-tasker!
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#189338 - 09/03/09 09:06 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: Dotsie]
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Registered: 11/24/06
Posts: 2930
Loc: Belfast/Northern Ireland
i fill boxes. lol

i a box for lucens stuff, tickets to films to drawing everything and anything. Junk mostylie but his junck and i let him or his memorie be jogged by it. He has a scarrrie memorie at two thir was several descusions of a boy named XXX 1.5 years later he heared the name and went oh yes thats the boy whoxxxx......when the original descusion was going on he was non-verbal, but remembered the boys name....thats how scarrie his memorie is for something, lol not how many sweets have you had today.

anyway i now mesure my time in boxes of stuff not in calkender days wink

it is very fast now but was when little, it onlie is not fast if i hate somnething and now i more control as an adult, i just walk away from what i hate so what a speedie time i have lol.
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#189343 - 09/03/09 09:45 PM Re: ...when a minute was a minute? [Re: celtic_flame]
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Registered: 11/19/08
Posts: 1758
Loc: American living in Germany
Hi Celtic! Glad you still have time for the BWS box. lol
How is little Lucien? And are you still working on creating web sites?
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