Why does time seem to go faster as we get older?

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Why does time seem to go faster as we get older?

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Because each moment (whether a minute or a year or a decade) makes up a smaller and smaller proportion of our past as we age. To a teenager, a year is unbelievably long, a significant amount of time. To a retiree, it is barely more than a blink of the eye.