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zanana1

(6,106 posts)
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:36 AM Nov 2020

I'm old, so I think time goes by too fast.

I think time goes by especially fast in the morning.
What time of day does time go whooshing by for you?


11 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
morning
8 (73%)
afternoon
1 (9%)
night
2 (18%)
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I'm old, so I think time goes by too fast. (Original Post) zanana1 Nov 2020 OP
the entire days fly by....as do the weeks and months. NRaleighLiberal Nov 2020 #1
All relative. Every day seems to zoom by, though the past four years? Not so much. hlthe2b Nov 2020 #2
Time rso Nov 2020 #3
How can 30 minutes pass sooner than 30 minutes? Ptah Nov 2020 #7
Time rso Nov 2020 #10
If a clock will measure two 30 minute segments as equal, Ptah Nov 2020 #11
Time rso Nov 2020 #12
Life is like a roll of toilet paper--the closer you get to the end the faster it goes. CrispyQ Nov 2020 #4
Morning. Harker Nov 2020 #5
My exact schedule. To bed around 4 AM and sleep til noon. Ah, retirement. Midnight Writer Nov 2020 #6
Ooh. Harker Nov 2020 #9
The Nixon era feels like a bad afternoon. Clearly fogged in Nov 2020 #8

hlthe2b

(102,200 posts)
2. All relative. Every day seems to zoom by, though the past four years? Not so much.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:42 AM
Nov 2020

However paradoxical that might be.

rso

(2,271 posts)
3. Time
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:48 AM
Nov 2020

Time is an entirely human construct, so it is malleable and flexible. It passes depending on our internal and external circumstances and state of mind. After all, a 30 minute soothing massage passes much sooner than a 30 minute root canal.

rso

(2,271 posts)
10. Time
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 04:40 PM
Nov 2020

Because it’s a psychological construct. A clock will measure two 30 minute segments as equal, but our perception experiences the segments differently.

Ptah

(33,024 posts)
11. If a clock will measure two 30 minute segments as equal,
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 04:42 PM
Nov 2020

how can time be a psychological construct?

rso

(2,271 posts)
12. Time
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 06:57 PM
Nov 2020

Because the clock was manufactured by humans to measure “objective” time, but how we experience the passage of time is subjective and flexible, depending on individual people and different circumstances.

CrispyQ

(36,446 posts)
4. Life is like a roll of toilet paper--the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 10:50 AM
Nov 2020

Someone told me that on my 40th birthday. I remember it like it was yesterday even though it was over 20 years ago. Have a great day!

Harker

(14,010 posts)
5. Morning.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 11:15 AM
Nov 2020

Even though I get up before sunrise to make breakfast and lunch for my wife. I'm retired, she isn't.

Years on, I'm still a 4am to noon sleeper at heart.

Harker

(14,010 posts)
9. Ooh.
Sun Nov 1, 2020, 03:52 PM
Nov 2020

Brings me back to my decades of working the closing shifts at secondhand bookshops...

I'm beginning to see some beauty in mornings finally.

"The day is okay, and the sun can be fun
but I live to see those rays slip away."

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