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I always thought the less memories you have the faster time has passed. The older you get the less new events are stored in your memory and therfor you have lar

I always thought the less memories you have the faster time has passed. The older you get the less new events are stored in your memory and therfor you have large gaps of nothing. A year has passed without much. As a teenager you have new experiences every day and therefor time feels slower.

johnea 2y ago
"Large gaps of nothing"? Haha 8-) You have obviously not experienced being "older" yet. I'm 64 and continuing to accumulate new memories and experiences everyday. And yes, a year seems like a month from middle age. So, just because you've reached the "old age" of 40yo, you've really just barely started middle age. It's amazing how millennial-centric the content is at HN. This also highlights why marketing is so focused on youth (which in the modern world runs until ~40yo). Lack of extended experience makes decision making irrational and able to be emotionally swayed. It's pretty clear to me (anecdotally) that the reason time seems to pass more quickly with age is because of the shrinking percentage of a person's total life that each new year represents.
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