Is it that time moves fast or we just tend to not appreciate the moments and people in the time we have so it seems to be moving fast?

[Anonymous]

When you really think about it. Time actually goes by relatively slow. The years seem to go by fast because we’re choosing to live fast. It takes a while to reach age 30 from being 18. It takes a minute to get to age 50 after being in your 30’s and 40’s for so long but when we spend majority of that time complaining and keeping ourselves miserable it seems to come fast.

[Orion84]

I think it's more a matter of perception.

Obviously, time passes at a fixed rate, but when you're, say, 10 years old, then one year is literally 1/10 of your life, up to that point. It's significant, and seems long, because it's such a large amount of time, relative to your current age. You haven't seen that many years, yet.

When you're 50, then a year is only 1/50 of the amount of time you've lived, so each individual year is less significant, when compared to the whole amount of time you've been alive. It just seems like a much smaller increment, due to the number of years you've already seen.

[Simslover92]

Okay so here's my theory based loosely on Einstein... Time is actually an illusion that man made up. The only real thing is the memories in our minds and every moment we spend taking it in. It only may seem fast because we aren't really taking in all the moments in the present time. The past doesn't actually exist nor does the future. Only the present moment. If people thought like that then "time" might actually move slower as we would appreciate the present and actually be in it instead of focusing so much on the past that's not a real thing beyond the mind and the future which again is only really in the mind.

In fact time isn't a tangible thing at all. It's just a construct. So you can say time is going fast but is it really? Or is it just your mind making yourself feel that way because you're aging?

[Jeff51]

Time is moving faster

[Simslover92]

Only because you're aging and probably not focused on the present moment as much as you think you are but really it's not. I thought long and hard about this and I realized the more I focused on my past and future, the less I was in the present moment and thus losing what we call "time."

[MannMitAntworten]

Damn Sims. Well thought out response to the post.

[Simslover92]

@MannMitAntworten thank you!

[MannMitAntworten]

Brians always catch my attention. You are welcomed.

[Jeff51]

at least you didn't call me old. Lol

[Asker]

Your breakdown is exactly my thoughts in words lol. Time is all an illusion and how you choose to perceive it but realistically, perception and memories aside, time actually goes at a slow pace. Time, takes its time. Time gives everyone a chance but depending on how or when you choose to take those chances time gives, then it will either be moving slow or fast in your head only but in reality, time takes in every second, minute and hour. It throughly puts things together and searches things out and that in itself takes time. The only reason we seem to be 20 one minute and look up and we’re 30 is because we spent our twenties not living in the moment. We spend it thinking back on our teens rather than doing what needed to be done in our twenties and leaving the past in the past. We don’t use our memories in the way they should be used. Memories are there to be a tool for our present. Not to sulk in or be depressed about.

[Simslover92]

@asker right!

[jahaims]

Perception of time changes as you age