Thread: Is it just me
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Old Thu Feb 17, 2011, 12:46pm
chymechowder chymechowder is offline
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Originally Posted by reffish View Post
Well, it's not just you, but it is relative. For example, a child alive for one year versus a person alive for 20 years. For the child, the one year is 100% of its life. For the 20 year old, one year is actually only 5% of its life. Compare the 20 year old to a 40 year old, the 40 year old's one year is 2.5% of its life. As time goes on for each, time starts to "speed up" compared to the time already spent. What was a long time for a child becomes a short time as an adult. So, yes, time speeds up as we get older......
thanks a ton for the downer, Euclid.
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