Why does time seem to go faster as we get older?
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There are a lot of “as you get older the amount of new experiences lessens” and similar answers. While I think that could definitely be a strong factor, there’s a big thing that I didn’t see with my cursory look through the comments.
Work. When we get older, we enter the job force. Our amount of time spent at work becomes a huge consumption of our life. We do the same things with the same people. We eat similar lunches, stick to a similar schedule. Day after day. Week after week. Year after year. Instead of being able to learn new things that interest us *every day* we have to schedule them around work. These days filled with similar experiences that we don’t usually enjoy will blend together.
Want to do something during the day? Has to wait for the weekend. Want to do something late into the night? Has to wait until you don’t work the next morning. Want to do anything that takes more than a few days, like camping or visiting another state, you have to schedule a vacation that could be months out. And that’s not including scheduling with other people.
On top of the responsibilities of maintaining your living space, and dealing with the general responsibilities of being an adult, we lose so much of our time in which we would otherwise be creating new memories and benchmark experiences. We go from 7 days a week of wild new things, to maybe 2 days of having the option. If you don’t have responsibilities you have to take care of first.
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