Do you agree that the older you get, the faster time flies?

I think so. Things are different when you are younger and when you are older. Most people that are younger can’t wait to get older, while a lot of us trying to be adults would like to visit those wonder years one more time.
I just speak from experience. I’m only 20 but if I could go back and just chill out for a minute, that’d be nice.

Yes, at least until your 60s. Older people generally have more activites (relationships, jobs, etc) than younger ones. That’s why time feels like it flies faster, because you never have the time to just sit still and do nothing.

I am getting the same feeling. However, I feel like it’s because I am not doing enough and because I am letting time pass me by. I understand this contradicts the general notion that “Time flies when you are enjoying life”.

Oh yes. It is SO true. Time really flies when you have a baby. Seriously, I have no idea where the last 5 months have gone…

“Wasn’t I just in school yesterday? no, that was 12 years ago, really?” Thats what it feels like to me at the moment.

I think the distorted perception of time starts when you hit your 20’s. At least that is when it started for me, before that, a day would last a year. Now days I can miss an entire day simply by doing 2 or 3 things. Scary.

“Zoom! What was that? That was your life, Mate! That was quick, do I get another?” – Basil Fawlty

Definitely. Nightfall seems to appear much, much faster than ever before in my life.

I always thought it was relative. A week until a book report is due would fly by where as a week before Christmas would drag on and on.

So… No real difference for me.

Definitely! I’m 14 (and female lol) and I can’t believe how fast my life is flying by! I can’t believe my sister is already 10…Can’t believe it’s been 6 whole months since my brother got married….yikes!

Summer seemed endless when I was a child. Now, I blink and it’s gone.

At 10 years old, one year is 1/10th of your life. At 20, it’s 1/ 20th. At 30, it’s 1/ 30th, and so on. Time units relative to your experience are shortening.

Absolutely! I once read it’s because your metabolism slows down, which causes you to perceive time differently. Dunno if that’s true, but for me, time definitely runs faster now than it did when I was younger. Remember in school how long a week seemed to Saturday or summer vacation… or till your next birthday… or till Christmas. Now it seems Monday comes and then suddenly it’s Friday. Of course, time still crawls when you’re in the dentist chair, or waiting at a red light, or sitting in one of those tiny rooms waiting for the doctor to come in.

Yes.

Maybe it’s because some “older” folk are too preoccupied with the notion of time itself. I know my dear old granny has loads of clocks in her house…& I do mean loads! Can’t hear yourself think in there. It’s like being in a warehouse full of taliban rucksacks!

Yes, I do. Seems as though the days pass by too fast now that I’m older, and when I was younger days seemed to last forever.

Oh yes, and I have a theory about why. The first time you drive somewhere you haven’t been before and have directions to follow, you notice where you make turns. You make a mental note of sign posts or a gas station or maybe a church that’s where you make the turns. The second time, you notice and remind yourself of those sign posts. Subsequent trips seems to go faster and faster as you go without having to note the signposts anymore. In our lives, I think the signposts are notable dates that come around at the same time each year. In the U.S. it’s holidays, school starting and stopping, birthdays, the seasons, sports seasons, anniversaries. As these come around each year, it’s like the signposts along a route you take, because they become more familiar, they seem to come faster. My gosh, is it really almost Groundhog’s Day? Again?

Yes, every year seems to go by faster than the one before. To me a week seems like 3 long days and a year the equivalent of 6 months.

When you hit age 50, the world seems to rotate at least twice as fast and the New Years seem to bump into each other, without you knowing. i told my wife, “i just paid for last years Christmas and here it is again”.

Advice: live each day as if it were your last. it just may be.

I’m 44 and I definitely think time passes faster than it did when I was younger. I guess because when I was 18, a year was 5.5% of my life. Now, a year is 2.2% of it.

I’m pretty sure this phenomenon has actually been proven to be true. Our perception of time changes as we age, which makes it feel like things are moving faster.

Yes. I began typing this response before you posted the question.

Yes definitely, it wasn’t long ago that I was celebrating my 20th birthday. I’m 45 now. Ouch. I think that is why some older men still court younger women, they just don’t realize how old they are. I don’t realize I am the age I am until younger people point it out.

No doubt about it.

Time flies when you are busy, whatever age you are. Or when you are responsible for other people, and their needs eat into your time.

I think @Nullo , @Sunny2 and @downtide have the right ideas.

When you are young, you are trying to fit in and find out where you belong. You are not paying attention to time.

One day, I was watching TV, and they put on an old commercial. It was the thirty year anniversary of the old Coke commercial where the hippies were singing, “I’d like to buy the world a Coke”.

I said to myself, ‘damn! I was there! I watched that when it first aired.

I just woke up one day, and it was thirty years later.

I am 66 and yep time does seem to fly. I think it is because I have so much to do. When you are a kid I don’t think you have nearly as many pressing obligations or demands on your time.

26 M. Yes

yup, except in the winter then it draaaaaaags.

Yes. More years, more responsabilities, more work, more routine, less time for yourself!!!
;o(

For me it seems that way, I think it’s because I’m not anxiously waiting for something to happen, but rather, sitting back and enjoying life as it happens.

Only when I’m not doing laundry. Then it seems to drag forever.

yeah… sucks, but true.

No doubt!

I don’t know these days because it’s winter and I have nothing I like to do. So the days seem long.

yes I agree with a lot of you, thank you!

Relate song recommendation: “Don’t Blink,” as sung by Kenny Chesney.

Shit yeah, seems to get faster with each passing year.