| DonFerrari said: You have put a fantastic point. To complement I'll put the relativity of time passing (why when we are older time seems to pass to fast). When we are 1y old that year was 100% of our time on earth. With 10y it already reduced to 10% and whe we are 30 it already reduced to 3,33% so time is always looking like it's passing faster. |
Yep, I've heard that one too. It does make sense. If you think about it, the only reference frame we have is our own lifespan. I suspect that our gut sense of time ultimately has to come from that, one way or another. The actual length of time isn't different but how long it "feels" can be. How long does a month feel? How long does a year feel? A decade? A century? It entirely depends on how long you've already been alive.
Something like a century would be virtually inconceivable to a small child. A ten-year-old may understand, mathematically, that it's ten times as long as they've been alive, but do they really have their own internalized sense of how long that is? I seriously doubt it. To them it must seem like eternity. But fast forward to someone who is 25. Ok, we're still a long way off but at this point you're starting to get a feel for what it means - you're already a quarter of the way there.
Now come up to the age of 50 and you have an even better sense of what a century "feels" like. Just take your current subjective experience and double it. This still isn't completely accurate, of course, but it's a lot closer than your sense of 100 years when you were a kid.
The upshot of all this is that life does have a tendency to fly by faster the more of it that you live. Kind of depressing, when you think about it. 
ColdFire - The man with no name.
