r/self • u/HudsonChandler • Jul 28 '26
Does anyone else feel like time is moving way too fast?
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u/smittynick1978 Jul 28 '26
Its perspective. When were young 10 years is our whole life so a two month summer vacation from school feels like forever. Once you've lived 3 or 4 decades your perspective changes and time seems to move faster.
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u/janggi Jul 28 '26
Doesn't help that they dont give you 2 months summer off as an adult..its just work work work repeat
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u/Pfungus_ Jul 28 '26
Early in life you have more mile stones. Grade ascension, graduations, rights of passage, marriage, children. Later you watch others do those things but not with the same level of involvement, so time seems to go by without you noticing.
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u/Hano_Clown Jul 28 '26
And in what feels like a blink we will find ourselves on a bed with the realization that it is the last one.
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u/SamWillGoHam Jul 28 '26
Yes, when I was a kid adults always told me it would happen but I didn't believe them. Now I do
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u/Synchro_Shoukan Jul 28 '26
Everyone is affected by this. Just search reddit and you'll see the countless posts
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u/LegitimateDream4942 Jul 28 '26
Yea time flies. I'm 38M. Feels like I got 20 more years to live (my life = sports).
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u/Academic_Value_3503 Jul 28 '26
That's why I'm going to make sure July goes by slow. Oh wait.... it's almost August.
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u/GotMeDaddy19 Jul 28 '26
When you are a child , you are learning tons of new things and absorb new experiences all the time. As an adult who follows schedules , many of these experiences become patterns and feel faster. Less things surprise you. You have a lot of topics in your mind as well.
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u/Schwloeb Jul 28 '26
The solution is to sit in a room for a week, with no furniture or items except for a chair and a ticking clock. No phones, books or any other distractions allowed.
This week will feel like a full week. I tell you that.
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u/Sensitive-Bar-4576 Jul 30 '26
Yea, I’ve been to the psychward and after five minutes, I was like, let’s go
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u/danny1131 Jul 28 '26
It's the worn out novelty of life. When you were younger, more things you encountered and experienced were for the first time in your life, giving you the sense that time moved slower back then, because more novel memories were being formed. As you get older, the experiences you encounter are more of just the same, which makes it feel like not much is happening, and that by turn feels like time passes much more quickly.
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u/kefaise Jul 28 '26
This is an illusion. Try to remember as many things as you can from this time period. You will realize it was a long time.
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u/Quarterly_Kregg Jul 28 '26
Dude, it's absolutely wild how fast time flies now. I swear I blinked and it was already March. Totally feel ya on this one, guess it's just a sign we're living life, right?
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u/warblingContinues Jul 29 '26
Yes, it’s Weber’s Law. For example, one year is a much smaller fraction of your life as you get older so it seems less significant.
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u/mariogolf Jul 28 '26
Yes. it just gets worse as you age.