time perception

[em]

the change in perception of how long that time is changes.  ten years does is not perceived as large as it once did do to  the length of time behind you

even as an adult a twenty year old is not the same as a sixty year old as obvious as this might be the details on why this is, might be missed. but if given some thought and explanation if you will  it could make sense and be understood better .  the fractions noting the time difference might help anyone who is young and getting older be more reflective on the journey and more understanding of those who have been here longer . a better understanding of our lives and our time we share while living the life we lead . when you are older you will understand but for now this might help to be seen from the thoughts of someone older.


incase it went unnoticed I thought it might be worth saying . 

what are my thoughts trying to say

time is a constant , the perception of time can vary with the number of years behind you


when you are twenty; ten years is half the time you spent on earth

when you are sixty; ten years is a sixth the time  you spent on earth

they are very different perspectives on the concept of time. even though time is a constant the way it is viewed and or perception of its size and or length changes with the number and length or size of the years behind you


sorry wanted to share with anyone who might some day find themselves young with a long life ahead of them then find themselves older and wished someone had pointed this out before they got there . like myself this might have been something worth noticing when i was young . it might seem obvious but until it happens to you . it might sneak up on you and then when it does find you . you too might have wished someone had told you this before you got there.

all the best to you

EM

 ten years/ twenty =one half 

ten years / sixty = one sixth   

still ten years but how long it passes is felt differently by the size comparison ,

this would be obvious to the most casual of observer but might be missed is no one ever makes a note of it .

[fabio]

It is quite weird how time feels infinite when you are very young and after you hit 20s time slips by.
I feel quite nostalgic sometimes,kinda scared as well,that when I'm older I will be cherishing time more than I do now that I'm in my early 20s.
This is actually something that I seem to struggle with,the fear that I will run out of time and I'll wake up old and not realising my dreams. But I guess I'll get over it eventually,or so I hope.

[leatherman]

the change in perception of how long that time is changes.

getting to 25 seemed to take forever; after that the years seemed to fly by. I remember thinking 1999 would never come (or that I would be dead by then) and here it is nearly two decades later! Looking back though, the 25 yrs since my Randy died seems like forever years ago. It's hard to believe my whole line of cocker spaniels came to an end a few years ago.

I just passed the 10 yr mark of losing Jim; but here I am married, with a 5 yr old dog in the house we just bought. How in the world did this great turn of events become my life in only 10 years?!

Every Sunday, Larry and I go visit my Grandmother. At 102 (on Aug 10) she's literally 50 yrs older than Larry. We have learned to not talk about any 50-yr old aches and pains because Nana laughs about how much more life there is to come for us.    As we have counted down through the weekly visits to her 100th, than 101st, and now 102nd birthday, we often talk about how fast the weeks go by for both her and us. She says you'd think that with sitting around in her rooms (she's got an apartment in an assisted living facility), time would go by slowly but it doesn't. She agrees that after your teens, all your years fly by and you have to enjoy as much as you can while you can.



me, Nana & Larry

[leatherman]

This is actually something that I seem to struggle with,the fear that I will run out of time and I'll wake up old and not realising my dreams. But I guess I'll get over it eventually,or so I hope.

so in my late 50s, after aids totally fuxking up my 30s and 40s, burying 2 long term partners, a house fire, 12 dead dogs what have I learned to tell younger people? Whatever you imagined in your teens and 20s was probably never going to work out the way you imagined it. Life was always going to get in the way of your plans and dreams and you were always going to have to adapt. If someone had told me this sooner, I wouldn't have stressed so much and certainly would have gotten a head start of fixing things instead of wasting time fretting and wondering why all that was happening to me and why my plans weren't working out.

in the end, you realize your dreams by dealing with the setbacks and constantly WORKING toward the goals you really want. If you don't put the effort into the goals, trust me, life's unexpected troubles will take advantage of your passivity and your goals will stay unrealized.