JetBlackPanda
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34 here, once you have a kid time hits warp speed.
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Losing the concept of time as you age
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The Real Abed
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When I was a teenager, I felt like I'd been alive forever. Childhood felt like decades ago.
Now I'm almost 40 and the last 16 years feel like a really short week sometimes.
Now I'm almost 40 and the last 16 years feel like a really short week sometimes.
Sumio Mondo
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Resetting Windows accounts at work, need D.O.B to confirm for IT security reasons -
Customer: "My DOB is X.X.1999"
Me: "What the fuck?! But you're just a kid!" *Realise that it's actually 2017 and this "kid" is old enough to work...I feel so old now.*
Can we please slow down time Max Payne style, please. Only feels like yesterday that I was last in education, now been in work for almost 8 years. Also feels like the 90s were just ten years ago and the early 2000s were a few years ago. It's not fair.
Customer: "My DOB is X.X.1999"
Me: "What the fuck?! But you're just a kid!" *Realise that it's actually 2017 and this "kid" is old enough to work...I feel so old now.*
Can we please slow down time Max Payne style, please. Only feels like yesterday that I was last in education, now been in work for almost 8 years. Also feels like the 90s were just ten years ago and the early 2000s were a few years ago. It's not fair.
Mr. Poolman
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- Oh hey buddy long time no see!
- Yeah I feel like it's been ages!
- Actually, we last saw each other at **** 7 years ago.
- Oh
Actual conversation with a friend of mine. Get used to it OP.
- Yeah I feel like it's been ages!
- Actually, we last saw each other at **** 7 years ago.
- Oh
Actual conversation with a friend of mine. Get used to it OP.
Skellig Gra
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Time is relative. The more of it you experience the faster it passes for you. Before you know it we'll all be dead.
Clockwork5
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Life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer you are to the end, the faster it goes.
The closer you are to the end, the faster it goes.
Knowledge extend beyond memories. You can increase your time frame perception by studying and caring about history. It opens up your logical thinking and decision making by learning the mistakes and successes throughout history.
It's depressing to see so many people who don't give a shit about what happened before they were born. They're selfishly stuck in their minimal time frame of existence. Instead of requiring to learn mistakes yourself through experience, learn from others who have already made the same mistakes. You'll avoid a lot of disappointment and make better use of your time..
It's depressing to see so many people who don't give a shit about what happened before they were born. They're selfishly stuck in their minimal time frame of existence. Instead of requiring to learn mistakes yourself through experience, learn from others who have already made the same mistakes. You'll avoid a lot of disappointment and make better use of your time..
Just think about it. Every poster in this thread, is going to be dead one day.
THINK ABOUT IT.
How About No
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Everyone tells me I graduated HS 10 years ago
I look at them with bafflement
I look at them with bafflement
Goro Majima
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From experience, change and extremely difficult periods of your life can slow it down.
I went through a divorce at 31 a few years back and holy shit did that whole period of my life slow way down while going through it.
On the other hand, I was reading about the impending writer's strike and was like "didn't that just happen like a few years ago? oh damn it was 10 years"
I went through a divorce at 31 a few years back and holy shit did that whole period of my life slow way down while going through it.
On the other hand, I was reading about the impending writer's strike and was like "didn't that just happen like a few years ago? oh damn it was 10 years"
Motherfucker lol
Forerunner
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The older you get the more responsibilities you have, so you're busy all the time. I was thinking about this on my drive home last night. It's been four years since I came home after separating from the military. All of that seems like it just happened yesterday.
Always combatting this by-- uh, enjoying work
Into the Light
Banned
At least there will be our posts to remember us by. Hello future!
It's no surprise how fast time goes when you consider how much of the time we spent at work or sleeping. I wake up at 6, leave at 7, commute to work for a hour, and work from 8 to 6. When I get home, it's 7, and I have about 3 hours of free time. 3 hours of time that I even would want to remember. How much memories can you build in 3 hours? I spent those 3 hours yesterday watching Monday Night Raw, lol.
Octavianus
Banned
Waiting for the Switch made time slow down to a crawl but now that it's out time is going fast again.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
This phenomenon only reinforces my theory that raising children is the reason we're alive. There's nothing like the well-defined years of your youth. There's a sense of solidity and rightness to that time that you never feel again as an adult. That's not to mention the crushing monotony of the fact that everything starts to blend together. There's something special about fully being part of an era. I think that's why old people refer to their younger years as "their day" or "their time." Their time is up. It belongs to the next generation now.
Living vicariously through the present day youth is the only way to get that feeling back.
I sound mad old. I'm not really though. Just being a bit introspective, I guess.
Living vicariously through the present day youth is the only way to get that feeling back.
I sound mad old. I'm not really though. Just being a bit introspective, I guess.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Seeing friend's kids and my nieces grow up zaps me back to reality and makes me realize that I'm 35 now even though 25 doesn't seem that long ago. It probably doesn't help due to working at the same college I graduated from. Everything blurs together.
Retirement won't exist when I'm due it. Or it'll be at such an age that I'm probably dead already.
#happythoughts
Gonna need to heavily invest in a private pension if I want a decent age of retirement going by the trend of bumping up the ages for every generation but babyboomers(who get mininmal​ bumps) by 5 every few years.
old manatee
Banned
My perception of time is that it keeps moving faster and faster, and that's fine with me because I don't really want to be here anymore.
I was giving this exact line some extra thought today while working all damn day and yeah...
our brains run on autopilot for a lot of things, repetitive actions start to blur together , only changes stick out. Unfortunately in training our minds to get us through a boring day of work , we also train them to blur together everything else that's unchanging from one day to the next.
I'm willing to bet it's not at all uncommon for the average adult to spend upwards of 14 hours a day every monday to friday doing stuff like this. Then, you know, take away sleep and you're left with 2-4 hours of time to really do something with purpose if you have the energy anyway. If you have kids ? well, you end up losing that too, the trade off being some sense of real adulthood (caring for a smaller human). This means you get only 2 days a week to really feel time pass doing something meaningful for yourself but, in most cases once sleep , hygiene and household chores are done and possibly you've socialized a bit with friends you don't see all the time ... well even most of that time is accounted for.
And so, month slips on by where you've only actually spend 8 hours or so feeling human... some months stack up and it feels like Christmas was a week ago (it's been 4 months) a few more months stack up and it's halloween, etc etc.
Basically you don't need a magic remote control to be Adam Sandler in the movie "click". It just happens on it's own.
Does anyone feel the opposite to this?
I'm 32 and a single workday takes forever to end to me, events from 2 weekends ago feel like a lifetime.
I'm never particularly busy and I don't want kids and all the other bullshit, I also make time to learn new stuff constantly and do things I enjoy daily. I guess the danger is just being on autopilot and never having time for yourself?
It probably helps that I am transgender and currently transitioning, waiting for things to change is a long slow process...
I'm 32 and a single workday takes forever to end to me, events from 2 weekends ago feel like a lifetime.
I'm never particularly busy and I don't want kids and all the other bullshit, I also make time to learn new stuff constantly and do things I enjoy daily. I guess the danger is just being on autopilot and never having time for yourself?
It probably helps that I am transgender and currently transitioning, waiting for things to change is a long slow process...
Well yeah because this is probably the or one of most important things you've done in your life it will likely make everything seem to slow down.
Hope everything goes well btw. Can only imagine what you've had to go through to reach this point.
I mean medically getting clearance and all that shit. Had some problematic wording there.
Widdle Puppy
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Kinda makes me a little sad. Time just goes by faster and things aren't as special as they once were. I remember when a summer felt like a life time as a child.
Wait until you hit 41. It'll feel like you were in your 30's for barely a couple of years.
SolarMystic
Member
I remember when waiting a year for a new game or movie or whatever to come out seemed like an eternity.
Now I look ahead and the time seems trivial, it will be here too fast.
There's gotta be mental exercises that help the brain remember and sort the years as they fly by. I hate that the last 10 years of my life is a jumbled mess for the most part.
Now I look ahead and the time seems trivial, it will be here too fast.
There's gotta be mental exercises that help the brain remember and sort the years as they fly by. I hate that the last 10 years of my life is a jumbled mess for the most part.
Yeah. I could swear the og reboot of prey getting cancelled was last year but the new reboot is out in two weeks. Nuts.
It's a little scary how this can happen. The primary time accelerator is work. Day in, day out, week after week being preoccupied with work just makes time go by way too fast. Especially if you're in an occupation where a majority of the time you're always a little behind schedule.
I made the huge mistake of not structuring my free time outside of work in my 30s so I could accomplish my other goals and dreams incrementally. Work was so stressful that my free time was eaten up by just trying to recover from the stress of it.
Don't do what I did. Keep a list of goals and update it often. Do a breakdown of what you need to do every week in order to reach them. Set hard limits on how much work eats into the rest of your life. Don't just live day to day with no long-term plans.
I made the huge mistake of not structuring my free time outside of work in my 30s so I could accomplish my other goals and dreams incrementally. Work was so stressful that my free time was eaten up by just trying to recover from the stress of it.
Don't do what I did. Keep a list of goals and update it often. Do a breakdown of what you need to do every week in order to reach them. Set hard limits on how much work eats into the rest of your life. Don't just live day to day with no long-term plans.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
It's funny, your school years (which might either be the best years of your life, or the worst) seem to last an eternity.
Everything after that is more rapid, and is either better, or worse, but you don't forget those formative years which seemed to last a lifetime on their own!
Everything after that is more rapid, and is either better, or worse, but you don't forget those formative years which seemed to last a lifetime on their own!
Opposite for me. My school years were so busy and happy that they seemed to go by in a flash. Everything after has crawled.
Interesting. My primary and high school years were mostly good/ok with little real bad experiences beyond the regular shit of being a teen. They still felt extremely slow.
I may be attaching more happiness to that time then actually existed though given concerns of that time seem trivial now.
Ah, I was thinking of college, honestly.
Ahh okay that makes sense.
stuminus3
Banned
You've gotta beat the clock. And listen to Sparks.
Not true. Retirement is like a rebirth. To be financially stable and once again having the time to do what you want is wonderful. They might not want to do the same things they did in their youth, but they can now do the things they've always wanted to do. People reminisce about their youth but that doesn't mean "their time is up". Retirement is their new time.
It's not so much about age, it's about having the time to do what you want. That can be in your youth or it can be during retirement. Breaking away from the monotony of work life can be more liberating than anytime during your life.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
So I'm sure there will be people on here that will say, "stealth brag post," but I do actually have some weird insight here. In December, I received some really positive news that I will be essentially set financially (not extremely so) starting April or May of 2018. I am currently 39 years old.
Although I'm not in bad shape financially by any means, this new income is essentially a life changer. However, I have to wait about another year. Prior to this, 18 months felt like nothing just as a lot of you are reporting. I've been a licensed psychologist for 10 years starting this summer and it feels like I just got that letter in the mail from the psych board maybe a year ago.
Suddenly, since this news, each week is really slow. This month especially feels like a year. The work day is incredibly slow. Even the evenings seem like I'm 13 years-old again. I wonder if novel expectations slow things down?
Although I'm not in bad shape financially by any means, this new income is essentially a life changer. However, I have to wait about another year. Prior to this, 18 months felt like nothing just as a lot of you are reporting. I've been a licensed psychologist for 10 years starting this summer and it feels like I just got that letter in the mail from the psych board maybe a year ago.
Suddenly, since this news, each week is really slow. This month especially feels like a year. The work day is incredibly slow. Even the evenings seem like I'm 13 years-old again. I wonder if novel expectations slow things down?
I want to be retired. Why can't I retire?
GermanZepp
Member
Spongebob is 18 now, how about that..
*Tempus edax rerum
*Tempus edax rerum
SolarMystic
Member
This is something I need to try and do more often.
Even something as benign as getting really into a videogame helps slow the fast pace of life I think. The first couple weeks after Zelda came out recently is a good example.
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