Besides what people already said relating to the amount of time making time size relative , and memory affecting perception
I also like to think adult life is full of too much work, the amount of time you are actually living your own life is way shorter compared to when you were a kid, a teenager and even young adult in some cases. Not forgetting that the time working isn’t only the hours clocked, there is a lot of indirect work time, for example commuting .
I wish I could work 30 hours a week, probably 6 per day, and still get a good salary/ money.
Norm Macdonald on NASCAR.
Norm Macdonald on crossing lights.
Norm Macdonald on TV shows under 20 minutes.
Norm Macdonald on sex.
Norm Macdonald on getting second servings of chocolate cake at birthday parties.
It’s the “pie of life” idea. When you’re 4 years old, you have a pie sliced into 4 equal peices, 1 for each year. Each slice represents what a year feels like. Pretty long at first.
But then at 20 years you have 20 slices, now imagine that same pie is sliced into 80 peices, each slice is so thin, that’s what 1 year “feels like” to you.
Something I heard once is that days go slow, years go fast.
I once heard the years start coming and they don’t stop coming.
Somebody once told me…
I wouldn’t say “never”. Eventually, some of them will get old and understand it firsthand.
Though the worst part is how perception of time is inversely proportional to enjoyment of said time.
Well of course youth seems like a blink when all that’s left of it is memories
Well heres the thing Norm. I think being dead is more peaceful than going to work a majority of my life. Doesnt scare me to take a prolonged dirt nap.
Life cums at you hard
There is actually some science behind this. People’s perception of time literally speeds up as they age. Our youth feels like forever, our young adult years still feel long and at that point it all feels like it will be forever, and then you blink and you’re 56 wondering where the time went. It’s a really well known phenomenon.
I think a lot of that comes down to our ability to make personal comparisons. When you’re 10 years old, a year is 10% of your entire lived experience. When you’re 50 years old, a year is just 2% of your life. Life feels like it goes faster as we age, because we have so much more to compare it to as we grow older.
I think you just inspired me to take more pictures. It’d be nice to look back at my camera gallery every year to see what I had going on.
It’s one of the main reasons I started photography. I noticed, especially as someone with ADHD that I would forget about things I did even if they were very important to me.
Is this an ADHD thing? I was diagnosed not long ago and I have this happen with some things. A friend who also has it is basically the opposite, remembering specifics about things like video games we both played at the same time that I simply do not recall.
It is but it can vary by individual a lot. I think the way a lot of people describe it is they feel like they don’t have control over what they remember. Like I forget things that I do all the time, but will remember a middle school friend’s middle name, or a small obscure fact I learned years ago that I haven’t used since.
It’s memory related imo, we forget so many things daily and over the years we just cant remember it all and so it doesnt feel like it was all lived.
Essentially yeah, it’s heavily linked to novelty. For instance the drive to somewhere new or unusual is always longer than the drive home because we’ve already seen it so our neurons just dump all the information that’s familiar aka not novel. If someone does the same thing in the same place for years then time flashes by but if they are having many novel experiences then it feels like a lot more time has passed.
So in short the longer we live the more we have seen, the more we have seen the more is familiar aka auto dumped information by our neurons before it even touches the level of our conscious mind.
I’ve even noticed it with the speed of looping gifs. It appears slowest the first time I see it, speeds up if I zone out, and slows down or speeds up depending on how I focus on details in it.
You might like the movie Cashback. You kinda just reminded me of it in that comment.
Cheetah sure are amazing!
And that’s why we always wear a condom.
I do understand the truth. That’s why I am too terrified every day to get anything done. 👍
This short clip of Norm is infamous. Dennis Miller is blown away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCeYjeDv2A
Also: “DON’T GAMBLE SO MUCH.”
No no no. This is just bad advice.
The real advice is to get the sports betting almanac, take it back to the 1980s, and gamble even MORE!!!
Then somehow become president.
Crime, the “somehow” is crime
