If your busy – time flies, if you procrastinate – it’s just the same, each today occasionally becomes yesterday, month ago, year ago though it feels like it was just here. Do you think there’re any ways to reduce this feeling, to apply in the lifestyle, or the only choice is just to accept this?
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The thing I’ve found that helps time feel like it passes less quickly is to do new things and keep out of a routine. If you do the same thing every day, the days run together, but if you’re always up to something, they can’t.
The book Catch 22 is about people in a war trying to live forever
One character knows that time passes slower when bored, so he tries to always be as bored as possible so it feels like he is living longer
I was always told by my father that when you get older time goes by faster and faster.. with that said if you can find a way to keep yourself busy you will think about it a lot less, or at least one would think.
Make a point of doing novel things with at given intervals. This will depend heavily on where you live, what your means are, and what you value. This can be extravagant trips, new books/shows/movies/games that you expect to be meaningful (through recommendation or reviews), new hikes, finding a new/interesting restaurant, making some meal out of your comfort zone, or even just walking down a new street/path. Ideally this occurs on a weekly interval, but I found that doing something interesting at least once a month helped a lot. At least I knew what each month meant.
Heck, I have decided that otherwise inconsequential moments were going to matter to me. I remember leaning my head on my car window at a stop light, and looking at a parking meter in a light but pretty snow. It wasn’t a stunning scene, but it was a nice scene, I wish I had a camera that could capture the low light moment, and I decided that would be a memory, and it still is at least 2 years later.
My favorite advice, perhaps only tangentially related, is to take care of your future self. Try not to say “that’s a future me problem” but instead ask “what future me problem could I solve, prevent, or alleviate now?” What do you wish you did 5 years ago, and with that in mind what do you think you 5 years from now will wish to have done? Sure, some of that will be “productive” boring stuff, but surely that future you wants to look back 5 years well lived?
We all experience anxiety. We all need to use strategies to manage it.
It helps to do something kind for others, spend time in nature, exercise, do the deep breathing app, clap back at thoughts that try to pull your focus away from the present, use mantras, call up a calming image, call a talkative friend or relative and listen and take interest in their life, etc.
You’re worrying about things that will likely never come to pass.
I heard it only gets faster when you get older.
Sometimes I think about it, like how I will be graduating soon, that I still have two months left before my life changes forever, and yes it is scary, to know that you will never be able to get that time back
But it makes life more beautiful if it is temporary
I sort of worked a cheat code out for this. Life goes quicker when your not learning and when your are experiencing the same things. This is why it’s slower when younger your learning daily. Your perception of time changes when you learn as your remembering new things (learning) so instead of forgetting most the day and time seaming like it’s passed quick it feels slower. You have more of the day to think back and remember.
So, go out and do different things. Meet new people and learn new skills. Your remember more of your day and time will seem better spent and slower. Will oddly feel fast during the day though but upon reflection slower. At least this is what I have found.
Smashmouth nailed it back in the 90s – the years really DO start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’.
But I honestly think bored or busy, time flies. In geological terms, your life is a blink. 80 years give or take if you’re lucky, think of all the billions that have passed through already on this old flying rock. Our kids grow up faster than imaginable. Then they have kids and it’s astounding you could be old enough to be a grandparent. Seemingly out of left field you’re closer to getting a senior discount than you are to 21, and your hips and back have limits now. Time marches on. Enjoy the ride, the hour is short and it’s later than you think! 😁
Are you not scared of how long it is?
I often tell myself that it’s not real, just a man made concept, really the system divides our “time” up so they get more slave labour out of us, pretty sure in other cultures and beliefs there’s meant to be 13 months all at 28 days
Yes,don’t want to lose my parents
I was told it’s not the years in your life, it’s the life in your years. I was also told if you do new things, time tend to feel longer. But I don’t have the energy to do new things after work, I barely have energy to do old things.