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Time used to run slowly in my early life too. Now every year is getting shorter. I never seem to find the time. One day I found 10 years had got me behind me. A
by lolive 3y ago
Time used to run slowly in my early life too.
Now every year is getting shorter.
I never seem to find the time.
One day I found 10 years had got me behind me.
And no one had told me when to run.
- walteweiss 3y agoYou missed the starting gun!
- partomniscient 3y agoAnd you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking...racing around to come up behind you again. The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older. Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
- walteweiss 3y agoIt’s nice others got the idea! I love that song, there’s something special about it.
- geodel 3y agoThere is some theory that say by age of 35-40 years one has lived about 80% of their lives in term of experiences. This seems intuitively true to me considering increasingly monotonous routine nowadays. There could be just ten things that I remember from last 10 years.
- az226 3y agoAlso the more you experience the more your brain is running on auto pilot. The key is to change things up and not allow the brain to fall into familiar patterns.
- dougmwne 3y agoIt doesn’t have to be this way! Any year can be the most memorable of your life. Think about what you want, then go get it.
- steve_adams_86 3y agoJust as soon as my kids grow up and I pay off this immense mortgage that is smothering us. Not to be a huge downer, I generally agree with you. There is a choice to be made. It's difficult though, and for some, maybe practically impossible. The demands of life can be extreme. For me, getting in the ocean is a pretty good way to make time stretch out. I try to do it as much as I can. Otherwise, quality time with my kids is great, though harder to fit in as they socialize more and more. There are ways to slow down time though, for sure. I like to think those things are a real gift. Also, this is hard I think, but I read something recently in the context of mindfulness and meditation. It went something like "The next thing you'll need to do is likely something you've done countless times before. Think about it closely this time". And that's a good strategy too. We forget to pay attention, as if run by a motor. I guess that's a choice as well.
- skrebbel 3y agoYour spouse will take care of the children
- dilawar 3y agoThough I still feel that life is long, but years have started feeling significantly shorter. I hope that compounding effect of life long investments kicks in soon to compensate.