When one is a child, a year feels like an eternity.
When one is a teenager, looking ahead a year can be tricky to get one's head round.
As one gets older, time seems to pass more quickly.
"They've grown up so quickly."
"Was it really ten years ago? It feels like it was only the year before last."
What activities, pursuits or phases of work or living life slow time down for you, and what have the effect of making time fly?
Originally posted by @fmfI predict time will slow to a near standstill for anyone who ventures into this thread and will remain at a near standstill for the duration of their time here.
When one is a child, a year feels like an eternity.
When one is a teenager, looking ahead a year can be tricky to get one's head round.
As one gets older, time seems to pass more quickly.
"They've grown up so quickly."
"Was it really ten years ago? It feels like it was only the year before last."
What activities, pursuits or phases of work or living life slow time down for you, and what have the effect of making time fly?
-Removed-My take on this phenomenon is that the speed of time to one observer is sensed as passing 'quickly' in direct proportion to the number of things the person is doing, or directing his attention to within that time. Ergo, a person spending 15 minutes simply sitting in a chair, perhaps waiting to see the doctor, senses time passing slowly if he has nothing to do or nothing to divert his attention to. On the other hand, if the same person has a magazine, or a TV to watch, or perhaps a cell phone to check email or surf the web, he feels that the time has passed much more quickly.
This is analogous to "A watched pot never boils", as one is presumably doing nothing but watching the pot, and time passes slowly. Whereas if you are preparing a meal, cutting and chopping and mixing and stirring, the water boils in due time.
Originally posted by @suzianneWhat activities, pursuits or phases of work or living life slow time down for you, and what have the effect of making time fly?
My take on this phenomenon is that the speed of time to one observer is sensed as passing 'quickly' in direct proportion to the number of things the person is doing, or directing his attention to within that time. Ergo, a person spending 15 minutes simply sitting in a chair, perhaps waiting to see the doctor, senses time passing slowly if he has nothing t ...[text shortened]... are preparing a meal, cutting and chopping and mixing and stirring, the water boils in due time.
