Time flies. I find myself saying this more and more. And I’m not the only one! The old saying ‘time flies’ comes from the Latin – ‘tempus fugit’.
Do you feel like time is passing much faster than it is? Is this our imagination or is it really going faster? Well, it seems to me anyone who mentions time also feels it is passing faster than before – but is it?
A common answer I found in my search to find if time is indeed moving faster said our brains can only process so much as we age. I’m not sure I can agree with that unless of course, someone’s brain is medically challenged. An aging brain is the reason for our perception of time? No proof, but food for thought.
When we were kids, looking forward to an upcoming event, it seemed like eons to a child waiting for that time to pass. Why? Why are children always wishing time away, and those of us middle-aged and more, feel like the days pass much too quickly?
Is it because as life passes by and we accumulate so many memories from our experiences and looking back on them make us feel they were so long ago leaving us to realize that each time fracture that has occurred in our lives makes what time we feel we have left feel smaller? Take a look at the video below where a man shares his theory about why time seems to pass faster as we age:
This man’s theory is demonstrated using circles of time for the amount of years we’ve lived on earth describing how it affects our feeling that time is passing faster:
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I do know how quickly time flies when using digital devices – especially when on computer. I can be doing a twenty minute project that turns into over an hour because of digital hiccoughs that weren’t planned in that time allotment.
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The earth is spinning faster now and actually speeding up, but it is possible to slow down again. BBC Earth uses a climate change example to demonstrate why time shrinks and expands:
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Someone else shares that “It’s not time that speeds up but our psychological perception changes due to increased stress, and the demands of modern life . . .” are what make us feel time is going faster:
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Honestly, I did some searching around to find if the feeling of time passing faster is indeed true, and most of what I came across were same thoughts or theories from most as I’ve shared on the above videos. Maybe it does make sense since life is getting busier with our to-do lists, maybe we’re just feeling that time is going faster. On another note, scientists seem to relay the time speeding up due to climate change, demonstrating how the melting glaciers have a play in why time passes too fast. Or just maybe the guy from video #1’s perception makes a whole lot of sense – Each successive year leaves us with a smaller percentage of time left.
I think how a clock measures time and how we perceive time are quite different.
What do you think?
P.S. I would just like to note that we are now, once again in mercury retrograde for the month of August. Reminder to double check everything, plan ahead, and expect lots of technical glitches and mishaps. On another note, I have noticed in my many blog reading travels and leaving comments that I haven’t been receiving replies from some of those blogs, which is unusual. A few blog friends have told me they found me in their spam. So I just wanted to let you know that if you’re used to seeing me around your blog, and think you haven’t seen me around in a while, please check your spam. Thanks 💜
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