Do you ever feel like you can't take in the moments in life as much as before.
Suddenly you have a big event or a trip and you feel like you're not in that moment, absorbing everything, but just sort of "gliding" through the moment. Not present in it.
Sometimes I feel like memories from when I was a child or even a teenager were richer, and I remember feeling more connected to the present than what I am now.
Is this normal? Does it happen or happened to anyone? How do you improve it?
Do you ever feel like you are not as aware as when you were younger?
I'm more aware now than then, but your question can be taken different ways.
If you mean it as, things were new and more exciting and more fun... then yeah, definitely stronger, richer memories when I was younger.
A lot of though had to do with having more free time, not having to work and live life and be an adult.
As a teen or child, sure... I worked around the farm and the house but I also spent countless hours, laying on the lawn watching clouds go by, playing and doing fun things.
It made life slower, and more relaxed. As an adult, time flies by because by the time you get 40+ hours of work in a week there isn't a lot of time left over for other things. I don't sit around not doing stuff, there is always something to do.
I feel that I no longer have an average/normal attention span. I feel like my attention span is way less than average and that makes it hard for me to recall recent events/memories. I am still trying to figure out how to salvage this, if possible.
When I was younger I accepted more, absorbed more, desired more, believed more, loved more, and hated more. Not I filter what I choose to accept, what I choose to believe, and both my love and my hate has been blunted, I’m far more neutral now than I was in my younger years. I’m less beautiful, but more stable and comfortable.
