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      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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    I do understand the truth. That’s why I am too terrified every day to get anything done. 👍

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.