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I agree. To elaborate:- A given duration of time pales away in comparison to one’s age as he/she grows older. For example, a 20-year-old sees a decade as half
by shorbaji 17y ago
I agree. To elaborate:-
A given duration of time pales away in comparison to one’s age as he/she grows older.
For example, a 20-year-old sees a decade as half a lifetime. For the 100 year-old it counts as just 10%.
- robotrout 17y agoI disagree. Just do this thought experiment. What seemed longer to you? Your senior year of high-school, or your freshman year of college? I bet the college was longer, even though by your logic, it should have been shorter.
- huhtenberg 17y agoFrankly, I don't remember. They feel about the same. But I do have a memory of my parents leaving me with my grandma once and telling me they would be back in 3 hours. I was 3 or 4 at that time and I remember thinking how mind-bogglingly long these 3 hours felt when they said it.
- drawkbox 17y agoCould be something with the ability to make choices and control of things. For instance when you are driving as a kid it is "are we there yet" but when you are in control you know how long it will take. Lots of waiting around for rides, parents, bells to ring when you are a kid.
- FooBarWidget 17y agoCollege freshman year seems to be shorter to me.
- shorbaji 17y agoGood point. I guess when one looks backwards - different years may seem to have passed quicker or slower than others. And, by the way, for me senior year high school seems the longer.
- nostrademons 17y agoSenior year of high school felt longer for me. I buy the "you compare each experience to your previous experiences" argument. If new experiences happen at a constant rate, that works out to simple ratios of time, eg. senior year of high school was 1/17 of your life, freshman year of college was 1/18. But new experiences don't always happen at constant rates: some people open up much more in college than in high school. Hence it feels longer.
- gruseom 17y agoFor most people, those two years are so close together that the incremental fraction might not be perceptible even if the theory is correct.
- raleec 17y agoAgreed. A better metric is a journey of constant distance, I've been making long journeys(4-6 or 8-10hrs) since early childhood. They definitely feel considerably shorter now. Of course, that doesn't clarify whether the discrepancy is because I've seen it before, or simply because of the ratio of distance/lifespan.
- pkrumins 17y agoBoth feel about the same.