• roofuskit@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’ll tell you the worst thing. Far worse than anyone else here can mention.

    Time is constantly accelerating. When you are 5, the concept of a year is nearly an eternity. But your perception of time changes the older you get. Every year is shorter and shorter. Like you are on a constantly accelerating ship headed to the end of existence.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I don’t think that’s true. Time is relative so it’s only accelerating if you’re in a comfy routine with fewer distinct points of reference. There’s an easy fix for that.

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        10 hours ago

        Humans adapt. We have abysmal bandwidth, so we have adapted. If anything is normal you don’t notice. You reserve bandwidth for the unexpected. You already know how to react and what to do/feel regarding daily life.

        Break rhythm

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          7 hours ago

          Absolutely, you stop measuring the passage of time in days and years and start measuring it in experiences. When you’re young and everything is new it’s absolutely full. The 10th or hundredth time you’ve done something you handle it more easily but it also starts to seem like one ‘thing’.

          Routine is the quickest way to looking back on life and feeling like it was the blink of an eye.