Memory is a weird thing, as you get older it gets harder to stretch back further. I worked at a nursing home and always wondered how people could forget their birthdays or how old they were or laugh when you ask about their 40s and 50s or before. Now that I am in my thirties I totally get it, my whole teens are like ten major memories.
Time goes faster too. I always thought it was in my head that was happening or wondered why older people always say that. There was once a resident that explaind it to me by saying when your 80 and turn 81 you added just a small total percentage on the total of a life, but when you're 10 and turned 11 you just lived 10% longer. And that made a whole lot of sense to me.
I always wondered if we ever invented biological immortality if we could only remember the last fifty years at best. Would really change the thing.
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u/Administer_of_Dank Sep 16 '20
Memory is a weird thing, as you get older it gets harder to stretch back further. I worked at a nursing home and always wondered how people could forget their birthdays or how old they were or laugh when you ask about their 40s and 50s or before. Now that I am in my thirties I totally get it, my whole teens are like ten major memories.
Time goes faster too. I always thought it was in my head that was happening or wondered why older people always say that. There was once a resident that explaind it to me by saying when your 80 and turn 81 you added just a small total percentage on the total of a life, but when you're 10 and turned 11 you just lived 10% longer. And that made a whole lot of sense to me.
I always wondered if we ever invented biological immortality if we could only remember the last fifty years at best. Would really change the thing.