A lot of comments here with legitimate aspects of getting older, but not many that aren’t fairly common knowledge.
I offer the compressed sense of time as you age. Everything just seems to go by faster and faster leaving you wondering where all your time went when things are over.
My personal theory is that this is kinda like an “echo” in Minority Report.
Basically, when you’re still fresh, everything is new. Brain is like “Write this down! Interesting!”
But a lot of adult life stops being an adventure. You clock in and out, automatically say “fine thanks, you?” to the thousandth “how’s it goin” that year, drive the same route to and from the job, the grocery store, etc…
The brain has seen this before. The experience isn’t novel. It tosses it out with the trash. Why hang on to a million copies of "Went_to_Work_did_stupid_job_had_reheated_chicken.mp4" ? You also are getting crappier sleep, so things don’t record as readily to long term storage.
Heck, I would clock in, hear the stupid “ding” sound, and legit not be sure if I actually just did that or if my brain was recalling the billion other times I’ve done it, 30 seconds later.
So anyway, I guess what I’m saying is, the key to a long experienced life might be to keep your brain “guessing” by switching things up, trying things differently, always learning new skills, trying to interact with different kinds of people.
The endless, rote, routine is a certain kind of hell.
Anyway, I’m no neurologist or anything, just another frustrated working class, but I think I’m on the money here lol.
A lot of comments here with legitimate aspects of getting older, but not many that aren’t fairly common knowledge.
I offer the compressed sense of time as you age. Everything just seems to go by faster and faster leaving you wondering where all your time went when things are over.
My personal theory is that this is kinda like an “echo” in Minority Report.
Basically, when you’re still fresh, everything is new. Brain is like “Write this down! Interesting!”
But a lot of adult life stops being an adventure. You clock in and out, automatically say “fine thanks, you?” to the thousandth “how’s it goin” that year, drive the same route to and from the job, the grocery store, etc…
The brain has seen this before. The experience isn’t novel. It tosses it out with the trash. Why hang on to a million copies of
"Went_to_Work_did_stupid_job_had_reheated_chicken.mp4"? You also are getting crappier sleep, so things don’t record as readily to long term storage.Heck, I would clock in, hear the stupid “ding” sound, and legit not be sure if I actually just did that or if my brain was recalling the billion other times I’ve done it, 30 seconds later.
So anyway, I guess what I’m saying is, the key to a long experienced life might be to keep your brain “guessing” by switching things up, trying things differently, always learning new skills, trying to interact with different kinds of people.
The endless, rote, routine is a certain kind of hell.
Anyway, I’m no neurologist or anything, just another frustrated working class, but I think I’m on the money here lol.
Yup, a week is such a long time in school, I’m in my thirties and I see months go by so quickly