It’s a hindsight thing.
When you’re 10, one year is 10% of your life, which feels like a lot. However, the older you get, the smaller that percentage gets. So in hindsight, the past year feels shorter than it did when we were young.
And then there’s also the perspective side. Time flies when you’re having fun, because you don’t pay attention to time as much as when you’re bored. Age isn’t much of a factor in the perspective side.
Imagine that time is like a road, and we’re traveling down it at a constant speed. When we are young, the road seems long and winding, with many twists and turns that make it feel like we are moving slowly. But as we age, the road seems to straighten out and become shorter, so we feel like we are moving much faster. This is why time seems to go by faster as we age – we are still traveling at the same speed, but the road feels shorter and less interesting.
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