Why does time seem to go faster as we get older?
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There’s a general consensus in the comments so it doesn’t bear repeating. But I’d add that I came to the same conclusions in my 40s and determined that, this being the case, the trick as you get older is to invest more time in creating new experiences and moments.
Rather than skip over the moments in a day that are repetitions of the past, look for the detail in them that you haven’t, before. In a sense, savour the tastes of the seemingly mundane. Take a moment – several – often, to stop and draw in more of what’s going on in that moment. We have several senses to use; we expertise only some of them without thought but the others are there to be used as well. Use those to draw in the entirety of a moment, and you may be overwhelmed by how much is actually going on around you.
They say that every square foot of ground contains thousands of life forms. I think that’s true as an analogy for every moment as well, but when we’re young we skip over that detail because we are experiencing the big things in that moment rather than the myriad tiny things.
As children, we have no time to notice the blades of grass that we are dashing across. So I think we have a second chance when we’re older to revisit those places and moments in detail.
By experiencing the detail hidden in each moment, we create new memories and new associations, and time once again slows down.
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