I dunno about anyone else, but in my head I reached about 28 and stopped. Sadly the calendar has not... (And I often miss the passage of the entire decade from 2000-2010 - the 90s do NOT feel like they were thirty years ago, and there's no way in hell that more than two decades have passed since all the Y2k craziness.)
-Pat
Quite agree, it seemed to me that the school years just seemed to drag along so slowly as if time had been suspended, but since leaving school and entering the work place, time has been passing too quickly that I keep looking for the brakes, but there aren't any
My theory on that is that there are several things at play.
The first is simply that as we get older, each passing year equates to a smaller percentage of the time we've been here - at the age of ten, a year is a tenth of our life; at 25 it's 0.04; by 35 it has dropped to 0.029 - each less than the last.
The other, and more prominent thing IMO is that when we're school aged, there are bigger milestones in life - using the US for example as it's what I'm familiar with, there is the start of school in September, at which point as a kid you begin looking forward to Halloween in October, then on to Thanksgiving in November, then Christmas/New Years break in December. There (at least were) a few days off some time in Februaryish for a 'winter break', then comes Easter and finally the end of the school year in June, followed by summer vacation. A series of very distinct milestones that are big deals as a kid and at the time, seem to take forever to come, and clearly mark the passage of time. Now as an adult, I get up and go to work. The year starts cold and snowy with short days and long nights and occasionally snow to shovel. I get up and go to work. The days begin to grow longer, the nights shorter and the snow melts. Wow, Easter already... I get up and go to work. The shift in night/dark continues and it gets warm then hot out. I get up and go to work, then cut grass and do yard work. Then the daylight shift goes the other way and it gets cooler and I clean up leaves. I get up and go to work. Holy crap, how is it Thanksgiving next week? I could have sworn it was Easter a month ago, and Halloween slipped past without me noticing! I get up and go to work. Wow, Christmas already? Thanksgiving seemed like last friggin' week, FFS!! And now it's time to remember to write a new date on things. Where did the past year go? It all merges into a big blur that moves ever faster, like rolling down a long hill. Not saying it can't be a fun ride, just that it keeps getting faster.
-Pat