Is time going faster, or does it just seem that way because we are older?

It goes so fast, it's like: Get up. Go to bed. Get up. Go to bed.
'round and 'round we go and where we stop nobody knows!

It seems the years fly by faster as I get older...I mean...where the heck did the last 30 years go? Larry and I heard on TV something that had happened 40 years ago...we looked at each other and said, good grief...are we that old?

The older you get, the faster time flies. Even my 87 year old mother can't get over how fast time goes. But you know, I noticed when I'm on vacation; time seems to be slower. At home, it just wizzes by...zing zing zing.

You almost have to learn to talk in forecast....or in the NOW, and the future, simultaneously...just so you can keep up!

If you think time hasn't flown by, try to remember what you were doing this time five years ago.

It also makes some of us anxious. That is, we have bucket list and want to achieve so many things before the big one comes. I asked a woman once how she accomplished so much in 24 hours.

She said...I have the same 24 hours that you do; I just don't waste any.

I find that time flies so much faster since I retired...I don't remember it ever going this fast when I was working, except on vacation. Hindsight makes some of those difficulot years look like tiny blips in time...which helps to give perspective now...all things do eventually pass, don't they!

I was hoping it wasn't just me... not that I want you all to be experiencing the same thing, too. But, it is comforting to know that I'm not losing out on something so special - time... really haven't ever put a value on it before. Sure, I've thought or commented on how I'd like to have a little bit more (i.e. time off or for a project), but this is so different. This is as if the day is shorter, like jabber said "Get up. Go to bed. Get up. Go to bed. 'round and 'round we go and where we stop nobody knows!" It's much like that!
Guess the best thing to do is appreciate every SECOND, every BREATH! --- bring honor to each and every one of them.
I'm hoping for 30 more years, banking on 20, expecting 10-15, ready for (at least) 5.... best learn to appreciate what I have NOW!, something I've been lax in doing. Expecting time to start going even faster.

... remember what I was doing at this time 5 years ago?... I can't even remember 5 weeks ago... honestly, I racked my brain, trying to write down some hours spent for my neighbor and could NOT recall some particulars (which were very important)... (another good reason to keep a journal)... I think, for me, it's all because people don't think I have anything to do and keep asking for favors --- would you mind doing this, can you help me with that, etc... trying to juggle is time consuming, in itself.
I'm use to a life of routine, knowing what will come at what hour and for what purpose...

W-R-I-T-E IT DOWN. I have a huge whiteboard in my kitchen. When I run out of "stuff" I turn and immediately write it on the board. Otherwise, it's a lost cause.

I also have a list of things I hope to accomplish by day, week, month, and year. Check them off when they're done. It not only gives you a history trail, but it gives you a lift to know you've done something. Time or no time, you'll find a way when it's written down because it is constantly in your mind (oh, I have that on my list..gotta do it!)...

lol... I use to be a fanatical list maker, JJ... in fact, that was one thing that my DH use to poke fun at me about the most.
I've gotten out of the habit, because things became so sporadic - sister calls needing help with math; daughter calls needing me to pick the g/k up from school; hubby calls asking that I run to pick up something or other from the computer store for his work; and so on. My days are interrupted, regularly, hardly giving me much of a 'routine.' I love it in some regards, but find I can't plan for my own day. I keep thinking the Lord is keeping me 'alive' by sending others' needs my way. It gives me great pleasure to serve others in such little ways, and I think the Lord knows that... And, He probably knows I might choose to twittle my days away, otherwise.

Five years ago, I was getting my older grandson pysched into accepting a new baby in the family. He wanted a brother but, got a sister instead.



That's a good quote to live by.

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)

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...

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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?