Why does time speed up...

[paranoimia]

...as you get older?

As I hurtle headlong towards my 35th birthday this Sunday, I just want time to slow down. Why is it that once you pass the age of about 20-21, time just seems to keep accelerating?

When I was a kid, often I'd ask for something for my birthday, and mum would say, "Not just yet... maybe for Christmas." To which I'd always reply, "But muuuuuuuuuuummmmmm, that's ages away!" And it was, too.

It's just a few days short of 5 months between my birthday and Christmas, but it seemed like forever. Birthday to birthday, or Christmas to Christmas, was like an eternity. The school summer holidays, for 6 or 7 weeks, seemed to be endless, too.

These days, though, blink and you miss a day. A week seems over before it's begun. Months pass so quickly that the calendar almost catches fire from the friction of turning the pages. And the years? Well, to me it seems like only a few months ago that we were seeing in the new millennium. Seems like yesterday I was a kid; now my best mate has 3 kids of his own!

I still enjoy cartoons and videogames; I hate talking about politics; "world issues" bore me to tears; and I still grin like a schoolboy at pictures of womens boobs. I'm not immature (honest!), but I still feel like a teenager, not a guy who's nearly 35.

So what is it that makes time speed up as you age? And how can I prevent it?

Answers on a postcard, please...

(Gawd help me when I turn 40!!!)

[madhatter1]

It's called going downhill fast-C-I know these things

[madhatter1]

The longer you've been on the hill the faster it get's

[madhatter1]

All of a sudden your over the hill yyiiikkkkess

[madhatter1]

does that answer your question paranomia (i can see you)

[paranoimia]

I thought 40 was the top of the hill, though...?

[madhatter1]

It was! been there done that christ thats another year gone typing this

[madhatter1]

Don't believe my aviator this is the real me

[melboy]

...the "top of the hill" is in your mind...if your glass is half empty then it will be at 20,30,40, etc...

...if yer glass is half full, the top of the hill will not be reached until you eventually fall off.


....so quit moanin and get on wiv it

[damian_steele]

Time runs faster because your life is fuller. The more you have to keep you busy, the less you notice time.