MY OCTOBER.

from time to time i am wondering why time seems to move so fast. it seems as if there is never enough time to get everything done and that the situation only gets worse.

once i heard that "the older you get, the faster time seems to go." but why should aging have this effect? what's going on?
i did an internet search to see what others were saying on the subject. many returns had to do with parenting. "oh, they grow up so fast..."
some other comments were philosophical. they said simply to accept the phenomenon and live each day to the full. good advice, but no advance in understanding.
then i typed in the search words "psychology of time". this turned up hundreds of articles, most of which were dealing with brain structure and functions, neurotransmitters… hard to understand.

finally, i found an interesting article which says:

“It all has to do with anticipation and retrospection. Whatever the nature of our individual lives, we all anticipate things important to us. Then after they happen, we look back at them. For example, most school children look forward to the long summer vacation, which always seems to be an eternity away. Finally, it arrives. Then, almost before they blink an eye, it's over and they are back in school again. Progressing from primary school to secondary school is another excruciating anticipation for a youngster, especially if the move is perceived as being an important step away from childhood into adulthood. And so it goes. When anticipated, each new significant event seems to be excruciatingly far away. However, after the event, we regularly look back and exclaim. "Did it really happen that long ago?" Our first love, our first heartbreak, driving a car, landing a job, marriage, etc. When we look forward, all these milestones seem impossibly far in the future. However once achieved, how quickly they recede into the past.”

the older we get, the more milestones we have to look back on, so the farther and faster they appear to recede. even if sometimes the clock may seem to have stopped, the calendar always continues racing ahead… :)

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