Something I heard once is that days go slow, years go fast.
I once heard the years start coming and they don’t stop coming.
I wouldn’t say “never”. Eventually, some of them will get old and understand it firsthand.
Though the worst part is how perception of time is inversely proportional to enjoyment of said time.
It’s the “pie of life” idea. When you’re 4 years old, you have a pie sliced into 4 equal peices, 1 for each year. Each slice represents what a year feels like. Pretty long at first.
But then at 20 years you have 20 slices, now imagine that same pie is sliced into 80 peices, each slice is so thin, that’s what 1 year “feels like” to you.
Norm Macdonald on NASCAR.
Norm Macdonald on crossing lights.
Norm Macdonald on TV shows under 20 minutes.
Norm Macdonald on sex.
Norm Macdonald on getting second servings of chocolate cake at birthday parties.
There is actually some science behind this. People’s perception of time literally speeds up as they age. Our youth feels like forever, our young adult years still feel long and at that point it all feels like it will be forever, and then you blink and you’re 56 wondering where the time went. It’s a really well known phenomenon.
I do understand the truth. That’s why I am too terrified every day to get anything done. 👍
This short clip of Norm is infamous. Dennis Miller is blown away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCeYjeDv2A
