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As someone who has recently hit 40, it keeps getting worse. As you age, time passes by like a roll of paper towel.

Yea, this is definitely how I feel as well! One day has shifted to one week really.

I'm miserable and it feels like the year is going by too fast, but all the days merge into one to the point I often forget what day of the week it is.

it's just that nordic winter days really are like 4 hours long, so it makes sense

And yeah part of the problem is before I can even start my day, it's already over. Entire months can be lost to this, especially if I nap, which as you grow older becomes more and more pleasurable but also loses you even more time

Nah, I feel like I blink and it’s already mid May, like what the heck happened to time?

I've gotten the impression that time slows down to a crawl in a new country because everything is a learning process again ever since you were a child. That is of course until you've learned most of it, until it doesn't feel as unique anymore.

I've heard it's because we experience fewer new things the older we get. I try to make a point to do more new things (or just things in general, like going out and meeting friends). It's a delicate balance bc I also don't want to overload myself, but I think it does help slow down time for me.

Definitely not. I'm 42 and I'm absolutely certain that I was in my 20s last week.

Its not just you. I was dreading my 30th birthday and now I'm 45 and what the fuck did I black out?

Definitely not just you. It comes and goes, but some chunks of time vanish super alarmingly

*alive

It is not just you. I miss the sensation of boredom

I genuinely remember as a teenager and in my early 20's feeling like a year was so much time, and now if something says it'll take a year I'm like "oh ok that's tomorrow basically"

Yeah, my biggest "accelerated time" moment for me came in my mid 20s when I got my first real career job, which was 8-5. The weeks just washed away as the only real, fun and interesting things I was doing were on the weekends. I started going to a weekly trivia night mid-week which actually helped!

I turned 31 in January and I'm especially noticing it this year as opposed to 30. I looked around yesterday and was like "how are we in MAY!?"

Nah, I definitely have had multiple situations where it feels like a week has just started and suddenly it's Thursday. Or I think the beginning of the month was a couple days ago and it's actually two weeks ago. In the moment, things can feel like they take ages, but afterward it just evaporates.

No this is 100% true. It also seems to be speeding up as my son gets older as well.

Seems like it's not just us?? But I feel like nobody warned me about this seriously enough. I feel like THIS is why so many people have mid-life crises around now? Gotta do SOMETHING to PUNCTUATE this constant acceleration?? lol aaaa 🫠

Can confirm. I’ll be 40 this year, months feel like days, it’s insane. We’re already in the middle of May, how did this happen?

My reasoning for this is that discrete periods of time end up being a smaller overall portion of the time you've been alive. When you're 10 years old, a year is 10% of your life, but that goes down to 3.33% by the time you're 30.