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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI'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?
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morning | |
8 (73%) |
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afternoon | |
1 (9%) |
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night | |
2 (18%) |
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NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)Time sure is an odd thing.
hlthe2b
(102,200 posts)However paradoxical that might be.
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.
Ptah
(33,024 posts)Because its a psychological construct. A clock will measure two 30 minute segments as equal, but our perception experiences the segments differently.
Ptah
(33,024 posts)how can time be a psychological construct?
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)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)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.
Midnight Writer
(21,738 posts)Harker
(14,010 posts)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."