I think, all those who are already having their post retirement plan used to feel that every year their life is shorter than a previous one. All others who are not having any plan may not be having such type of feeling. However, its cent per cent true that lives of all of us are becoming shorter than a previous year.

Yes I found that too.

Work-wise, activities are the same, so time flies fast.

However, if grandchildren start appearing, then years are getting a bit longer with new activities added.

Dear Marianne,

The same happens to me. I think it is effect of relativity. When I was 10 years old, one year was the tenth of my life (1/10). Now, one year is just a 1/56 of my life!!

Thus, I feel that each year is more and more shorter.

Regards

I think all years are equal ... and each decade has its own enjoyment. The most important is how to make the most of every year or month, or actually how to make the most of every day.

The subjective number of days for one year is  365 / age , so it keeps decreasing.  At 57 , a year seems to be 6 days.

I do

IMHO .It is indeed  a profound question. Nice formula @ Louis Brassard  but may not be quantitatively accurate. It does tell I think that Time measured as distance(mathematical measure) between events keeps growing shorter (in the individual.s mind). Given   a limited life span( proverbial three score and ten) the distance between events becomes shorter as we age. As an example let us assume we spend 30 min on lunch , the relative distance between lunch at age near zero will appear to be 70 years /(30 min converted to year units) . At age 60 it will be (70 - 60)/ (30 min) , a much shorter distance , appears time is flowing swiftly..there seems to be some connection to space time mixing here.

Cheers

 Narasim,

Maybe a more accurate formula:

Subjective numbe of days in a year = 365 x  ( 88   - age ) / 88 

for age = 57 and life expectation of 88 , my year has a subjective lenght of 128 days

At 88 if I am not dead, I will probably grant me an expected life of 92 and my subjective lenght will become 365x4/92 and it will be 15 days which is probably right given the little memory I will have left.

Nice ,,,:-) it would be interesting to ascertain if feasible by practical measurements Alzheimer patients ..idea of time...

Cheers

I think if you feel you are a winner you feel not life is shorter.

Indeed right, dear Marianne.

I will never forget the day when my grandmother taught me the notion of time.

She taught me that time is what you make of it. She taught me to count to 60 and check on the great amount of things that could be done in one minute. At the age of 7, those minutes sounded like eternity. I remember, daily, how she taught me that it takes 3 minutes to take a bath (Half minute to get undressed and have the water running, one minute for soap, one minute to wash away the soap, and finally half more minute to dry and get dressed again . - Of course my body was smaller in those days But this was the lesson of a lifetime, that I remember daily, when i try not to be late for work...-)

In those days, the 3 months of Summer used to last for an eternity !  

The faster time runs,the closer you get to old-age.

Nevertheless, I do believe in my grandmother's lesson : 

Time is what you make of it .

the time is life and no time no life what you do you spend time what you do not do the time is gone forever without benefit and the life go with any benefit.

No & Yes. If I slow down by observing the environment instead of just focusing on a goal, then I feel that the time slows down. Therefore, I take time to just observe the environment and allow myself to be free of goals once in a while. The yes part is based on the fact that I usually need something to do for various reasons and, therefore, time rushes by. When I look back, I console myself by remembering that I have allowed myself to slow down periodically to live here and now rather than in the near future of constant achievements.

Yes, It is only the time that can not be deposited in a bank and drawn in convenient installments!!!

Time just runs down. Time gives the healing touch when we face demise of our beloved one. In Sanskrit we say " Kaalaya Tasmii Namaha" ( meaning Salutations to the Time)

There are two stages in life which have a longer. One is childhood another one is old age. Childhood is dependant on parents so there are no responsibilities at this one is free without any responsibility. In old age, also no responsibilities

It is called as second childhood . So it is also longer.whereas Young and middle age is full of struggle for settling life and setting children life safe. So these stages of life go very fast.

Yes, I think most people do notice this change in perception. But it's easily explained (I think). It's a matter of fraction of your total experience in the time line.

When you are, say, 5 years old, 5 years is your entire perception of time.. It's basically infinitely long, as far as you can determine. And 2 1/2 years is therefore huge. You might be able to remember, just barely, what happened 2 1/2 years go.

On the other hand, when you're 50 years old, 25 years is half of your existence. Subjectively, 25 years is a time span similar to what 2 1/2 years is to a 5 year old.

So sure, it makes sense to think time goes faster. It's simply a perceptual change.

Funny true story. My wife and I went shopping for (electric) stoves some time ago. I asked the young salesman whether the burners on a fancy new one could be replaced by the owner. No, he said, but they should easily last 15 years.

We chuckled, after moving away. He probably thought he was telling us that the burners would last forever!

I have the same feeling. Today is Monday and after few moments it will be Friday. Life runs faster and faster and I can not catch it up… Maybe when our life is full and interesting, when we have to meet and overcome a lot of challenges, time follows some other laws and is going to become more and more compresed. In my opinion we can formulate three principles. Principle number one: “The busier you become, the faster time flies”. Principle number two: “The better you feel, the shorter become days (compare the time spend with the dental doctor into his office versus time spent with friends, with people you love)”. Principle number three: “Every second is precious and should not be wasted”. But may be the devil is not so black. I think there is also a good news - because time is running very fast we have no time to get older…