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Living among Muslim and Catholic people in a time of simultaneous Lent and Ramadan, I first read "How the Fast Days are getting longer" and thought "How true, h
by pm3003 2y ago
Living among Muslim and Catholic people in a time of simultaneous Lent and Ramadan, I first read "How the Fast Days are getting longer" and thought "How true, how true".
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoAs a middle-aged human I first read "How the Fast Days are getting longer" as some kind of ironic commentary with the actual meaning being "how fast the days are getting shorter".
- user_7832 2y agoAs a younger human I too clicked here thinking it was social commentary on the passage of time.
- Delk 2y agoMy initial assumption before clicking was that it was about the Earth's slowing rotation, and my thought was "not very".
- rzzzt 2y agoIf you would like to read some "time moves quicker" articles: "Why time 'speeds up' as we get older" - https://sites.harvard.edu/sitn/2019/03/27/no-not-just-time-speeds-get-older/ https://sites.harvard.edu/sitn/2019/03/27/no-not-just-time-s... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109066 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109066 "Why time seems to pass faster as we age" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522249 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522249
- xvokcarts 2y agoI think it speeds up because we settle in a routine, and when every day is mostly the same the brain just compresses the experience. The younger you are, the more new everything is around you, and you may not know yet what is worth trying or not, hence more things happen, and that makes it appear to last longer.
- andyjohnson0 2y ago"The days are long but the decades are short"