Is it my imagination or are the years getting faster the older I get? I remember when the six weeks of the school holidays seemed like AGES. Now, six weeks goes by and I’m still trying to figure out what to have for lunch.
Do the years go by so much faster these days because everything is faster? For all we know, kids today probably feel the years whizzing by as well. Unlike our own languid childhoods, theirs are packed full with one activity after another. They probably also feel there aren’t enough hours in a day…
Our sense of time seems so subjective. It seems to go faster when we’re busy and engrossed. Perhaps we get more busy and engrossed as we get older? It’s kind of ironic that the busier you are, the faster time goes and the more you wish for more time. Perhaps the secret is that if we’ve got a lot to do, we should actually do nothing and feel time slow down. That sense of the clock hands moving on fast forward would instantly cease. We would feel a lot less stressed, I’m certain.
Life love, clutter and other beautiful things. says
I agree. HOW can it be October?! wouldn’t it be lovely to just be and not to rush through the years!! xox
Mum on the Run says
Yep! And yep!
I constantly have to remind myself to chill the heck out and sloooow down.
To sloooow down Magoo’s life and allow him some time to smell those roses, chase those bugs, climb those trees.
At this rate, he’ll be leaving home sometime next week.
🙂
Mrs Woog says
GOD YES! I remember counting down to Christmas when I was a kid. now I think I should not even bother taking down the tree. xx
trudi@maudeandme says
Oh I so agree with Mrs Woog.
As a kid time was measured by how many sleeps till christmas….. and I think it still is but more “oh my I can’t believe it will be christmas so soon again!”
Miss Mandy says
absolutely. I’m constantly battling with the chore of slowing down, just when I get on top and slow down, things go haywire again. Oh well a battle I’ll keep on fighting.
Nic says
Time really does go faster as you get older. I remember a conversation Hoges and I had with his late Grandfather, who made the comment of “you think time goes fast now your in your 30’s, I’m 85, time goes light years! Enjoy the time you have with each other and cherish all moments”.
Such a lovely comment from a delightful gentleman.
And time does go slow for kids. I know Junior felt that time was going forever this past week. He couldn’t wait for Friday to come and school to finish so he could go on holidays to Grandma’s. Yet for Mini, at age 3.75 years, he is still oblivious to time, he truly lives in the moment.
What age do you think we become aware of time? is it when we start school? And what age does time start to speed up? Is it in your thirties? Earlier?
Nic xo
Naturally Carol says
Maybe it’s good for kids to get bored every so often and have to create their own activities and fun..to have time slow down and wait for them! Those are the times kids learn about themselves..who they are and what they are finding that inspires them…growing aspirations.
Naturally Carol says
p.s..just thinking that the same process works for me even now!
Penny says
When I was a kid, I played down the river and climbed trees and built cubby houses and slid down hills in big cardboard boxes from dusk until dawn.
It was only when I got older and everything began to get scheduled into time slots that time began to move a lot faster.
I need to go and sit up a tree again I think.
http://atthelemontreehouse.wordpress.com/ says
Yeah I wonder the same thing! Time feels like this priceless and beautiful thing we all dream of gaining. My spring list of things to do seems to be growing and no time allows for them to all be done…nice post lovely thing..xx
Notchka says
Maybe its that as grown ups we have less reverence for time.
I spend waaay to much time in my head thinking and planning and scheming how I can stretch time to squeeze in all the things I need to do plus a bunch of stuff I want to do. I don’t have a time machine but somehow I expect time to bend to my will – its quite hilarious really.
On the other hand my girl does ‘right now’ really well, and when I let go of the headspace its lots of fun to do ‘right now’ with her (and less stressful than pushing her to keep up with my crazy ridiculous schedule).
Thanks for the timely reminder – you are ever the conscious prodder =)
Kirsty @ Bowerbird Blue says
Speedy gonzalas fast. Lucky we live for a long time (hopefully), think of the poor butterflies.
jody says
i dont know about the kids, but i feel it flying past me, christmas will be here in a minute and that is pretty scary to me!!!
x jody
Brenda @ Mira Narnie says
oh yes, time goes super fast when your all grown up and adult…..as a kid the two weeks holiday mid term used to seem so long, and Christmas always seemed soooooo far away….but as as adult, it’s like, what! Christmas decorations in the store – already!!!! I think you’re right though…the key is to slow it down every while and smell the roses! xx
julie says
this is so true! Every day i have to write the date i freak because i did’nt knew time went so fast and i’m getting older and older by the minute. fjew, enjoy the moment i say
Zoey @ Good Googs says
Yes! Time does actually speed up, I’m sure of it. Or I’m just getting really old and it just seems that way.
happylan says
I think for me, time definitely has gotten faster as I have go ten older, but it sped up exponentially when I had kids. I look at my firstborn, this four year old little boy now and think, “Hang on a minute – wasn’t it just a minute ago that I was looking down at those two lines on the pregnancy test thinking Holy crap – it IS positive.?” And the more kids I have the faster it goes – my baby’s first year has positively flown in comparison with her brother’s (which was fast enough!)
The years start coming and they don’t stop coming.
Catherine says
Time flies by too fast I just look at my girls and wonder how they could now be so big, one almost a teenager. I wish I knew the answer to slowing down time, I think trying to be in the moment more might be the key. x
Glen says
When I read the link to come visit, I read it as time ‘tickling’ away. I feel a little gutted if I’m honest. Time is best spent tickling rather than ticking i think.
Jodi @ The Scribble Den says
Oh Bron, this is perfect and I totally agree. It is possible to slow time – it is a mind set. It’s not easy but worthwhile.
Since I have tried to ‘simplify’ life I am so less stressed and enjoy more of each day. When I get it right I am not scrambling for each minute. Beautiful post x
Mrs Bok - The Bok Flock says
I often think this and wonder if it’s a sign my brain cells are fading! I remember feeling so bored during school
Holidays…but not once do I hear that from my kids so perhaps you’re right. Then again I didn’t have a playstation, tv, a car growing up either so it was always one day stretching onto the next roaming the fields behind the house and contplating.
Sammie says
Time seems to fly.
I still can’t believe that this time 6 weeks ago I was arriving at the hospital to be induced to have little (not so little anymore) Abi.
I agree… The older we get the quicker time goes.
I want to rewind a few weeks now! Just to recapture the moments with Abi that we will never get back! Let alone rewind a few years!
MummyK says
Nope, you’re right. It is faster. And I think there is a scientific explanation. I think the world is moving faster, scientists just hasn’t figured it out yet or the government is hiding it.
Sarah says
Oddly enough I have made a bucket list of things I’d like to do before the end of this year. I know what you mean about stepping back and letting go and I think there is a balance to be struck. Right now I want to do as much as I can. Not sure what the urgency is. I blame Octoberitis
Tas says
Oh, yes. The years are flying by. I am hopeful that this is due to having 3 kidlets at home and that the clock will slow down once they become independent.
Besides, time never goes slower than when you are watching the clock waiting for your offspring who is late home to arrive, surely?
Amanda says
I think what you’re saying is so true – that if we weren’t so engrossed in so many things and actually slowed down the pace of our daily lives, perhaps the months wouldn’t fly past so quickly. They definitely have for me, especially with this pregnancy. I’m forever wishing there were more hours in a day to get through all I want to accomplish 🙂
Faith Hope and a whole lotta Love says
I am still trying to work out how to slow life down…..have contemplated sitting on a beach for days on end till it happens….but having the time to do that is hard enough 😉
emma @ frog, goose and bear says
I find myself thinking this often – imagine what it’s going to feel like in another 30 years time! It was actually explained to me once, by someone more than twice my age, that it’s a relative thing – one year is only a quarter of your life when you are four, so it feels like forever, but when you are 80 it’s a mere fraction – does that make sense?
Rhonda says
I think kids still think it goes slow and I wonder how it is all passing me by so quickly.
Joni Llanora says
You are right as usual. I kicked the habit of not wearing a watch unless I really need to as I tend to look at it too often and get stressed much with how time flies. I had the impression when I was a kid somewhere that not having a watch sorta slows time so I adopted the practice ever since. And it seemed to work, at least for me.
Kymmie says
I’m with you. I cannot believe it’s October already. I’m still relishing in my summer holiday back in February. It really doesn’t feel that long ago.
But I don’t think it’s the age we live in, because the days go so slowly for my lads some days. And when I lived in PNG, I recall so much. Because I was less busy (hello paid cleaner and gardeners!), in a senior position AND studying. And we spent a lot of time being homesick and at times it just dragged.
So definitely a tikme/space thing. xx
MonetPaisley says
I used to complain to my parents that a year was too long to wait for…. (whatever it was) and they always told me that time goes faster as you get older and not to wish all your time away but enjoy it while it lasts… so I think time has always flown by the older we get…. hoping it slows down a bit when we retire…. but not sure it will.
Oh, I have made some fabbo one-pieces and they will be in the shop as soon as I get the photos ready… and access to a computer. So glad everyone kept asking, I love them even more than the bikinis 🙂