Also the older you get, the smaller a day, week, month, and year is in terms of percentage of your experience. I really started to understand this after watching my child develop.
When you’re 4 years old, 2 years is 50% of a lifetime away. When you’re 40, 2 years 5%. When you’re 80, it’s half that, 2.5%.
Time really does start to fly by when it’s a smaller slice of your life.
The brain stores new and exciting experiences better in memory than familiar experiences. The more you remember about a certain period, the slower the passage of time is retroactively perceived about that period.
To young children, every day is full of new experiences and seems like an eternity. To many adults, every day is like any other, full of routines and quickly forgotten.
That’s why time flies faster with age unless you manage to make many new experiences in your life.
Also the older you get, the smaller a day, week, month, and year is in terms of percentage of your experience. I really started to understand this after watching my child develop.
When you’re 4 years old, 2 years is 50% of a lifetime away. When you’re 40, 2 years 5%. When you’re 80, it’s half that, 2.5%.
Time really does start to fly by when it’s a smaller slice of your life.
The brain stores new and exciting experiences better in memory than familiar experiences. The more you remember about a certain period, the slower the passage of time is retroactively perceived about that period.
To young children, every day is full of new experiences and seems like an eternity. To many adults, every day is like any other, full of routines and quickly forgotten.
That’s why time flies faster with age unless you manage to make many new experiences in your life.
TIL time has a halflife
So it’s exactly like Frieren