Tick, tick, tick.

garinda · 04-04-2006, 14:19

Does time speed up as you get older?

On a recent sleepless night, I realised I'm half way between seventeen and the state pensionable age of sixty five.

I can remember everything I did aged seventeen.

I passed my driving test, and my A-levels. I remember what clothes I had, where we went on holiday, what records I played, the times of the buses I had to catch to and from college. I can even remember who had bread ordered on Saturday mornings at my partime job, and who prefered pale or well done loaves. I spent the summer working in Cornwall for a Dutch lesbian aristocrat, and can even rhyme off the names of all of her animals.

In fact it seems just like yesterday not twenty four years ago.

All this sleepless mathematics started because I was remembering how I used to sit in church as a child, and work out the age of the hymn writers. John Wesley (1703-1791), therefore he was eighty eight.

So at the end of this ramble two questions, as anything happened to make you feel your age, and does time speed up the more we travel further down this mortal coil?

Is that why children very often add quarter years to their age, because time seems to pass so slowly when you are just starting out in life? ie: 'I'm seven and three quarters'

MUMMIBOO · 04-04-2006, 14:31

Its funny you should say that i was just the other day talking to a friend when i said i am nearly 29 but i really dont feel old i still feel 15! and she agreed only now i have to act responsable as i now have 2 children of my own and my friend is about to have her 2nd.

I just seems as though i went to bed one night aged 15 and woke up 28! Its pretty hard to comprehend really a mortgage is for grown ups but thats where me and Daddiboo are at now.

I just think its scary how soon things seem to happen these days. wait till i go to bed aged 29 and wake up about 72 with grandchildren Oohh i dread to think.

lettie · 04-04-2006, 14:56

There's something about age and life......... It's like bog roll, the closer you get to the end, the quicker it goes...

Tealeaf · 04-04-2006, 15:00

Interesting.....at what age do you enter your second childhood?

Margaret Pilkington · 04-04-2006, 15:02

I'll say it does.......I no sooner seem to have got the christmas decs away before it is time to take them out again......A third of the year has gone in a blink of an eye.

Margaret Pilkington · 04-04-2006, 15:04

ooooh er Lettie.....that is one way of putting it......I'd better just use a sheet at a time from now on...from life that is, not the bog roll!

garinda · 04-04-2006, 15:29

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I'll say it does.......I no sooner seem to have got the christmas decs away before it is time to take them out again......A third of the year has gone in a blink of an eye.

I do that as well. I was just thinking on Saturday that we're a quarter of the way through 2006 now.

When you are a child you always want time to pass more quickly. You can't wait until Christmas, or the school holidays, or your next birthday, and time seems to drag soooooooooo slowly.

Now, when you are older, the pages on the calendar, indeed the calendars themselves, seem to whiz by, just like they used to in old movies to show the passing of time.

Blimey, like they say, this ain't no dress rehearsal, better get on and enjoy life right here, right now.

Sara · 04-04-2006, 16:17

I still feel as though i'm still in my late teens early twenties when i'm having a night out, but when i wake up the following morning i feel about 80, when actually i'm only 44.

Ber999T · 04-04-2006, 16:46

well time does seem to be flying by now. Nearly 49 and 1/2 so hope the next 6 months go a bit slower lol :engsmil:

flashman · 04-04-2006, 17:03

Maybe the reason is that you get busier as you get older and there simply doesn't seem to be enough time to do things while when you're younger there seems to be plenty of time to do everything.

harwood red · 04-04-2006, 17:13

It all depends what I am doing on how old I feel!!! But i do agree time does seem to be flying by and I am only 35!!

So if time is flying by so quickly now should I be getting my order in for my zimmer frame and booking a room at the local residential home soon?????

katex · 04-04-2006, 17:18

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I'll say it does.......I no sooner seem to have got the christmas decs away before it is time to take them out again......A third of the year has gone in a blink of an eye.

Well, haven't got around yet to putting them back in the loft !! Comes so quick might not bother .. save me a job later in the year.

I am on a kamikaze mission at the moment, spending my very last bit 'o money on a Med. cruise .. ok so may have to sell my house 'cause of shortfall in endowment policy and pay-up time to the mortgage company end of month, but don't give a damn, will not be able to take the memory of this holiday away from me, will they ?? .. least my 'short' term memory fails of course.

I also find can speak my mind more (hope not hurtfully though !) .. will I get like Blanche out of Corrie or Catherine Tate as one of her characters who does this ? Fun though, 'cause get forgiven more easily, using my age as an excuse

Tinkerbelle · 04-04-2006, 17:51

I hate how time is flying! It scares the hell out of me ..... and yes I'm serious!

I think it hits me how time has flown with my oldest being 13 year old. It certainly doesn't feel 13 years ago I gave birth to my beautiful little baby! It feels to me like she can be no older than 5 year old !!

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Originally Posted by Garinda

Blimey, like they say, this ain't no dress rehearsal, better get on and enjoy life right here, right now.

What a 'tip for the day' !

Margaret Pilkington · 04-04-2006, 19:12

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Originally Posted by katex

Well, haven't got around yet to putting them back in the loft !! Comes so quick might not bother .. save me a job later in the year.

I am on a kamikaze mission at the moment, spending my very last bit 'o money on a Med. cruise .. ok so may have to sell my house 'cause of shortfall in endowment policy and pay-up time to the mortgage company end of month, but don't give a damn, will not be able to take the memory of this holiday away from me, will they ?? .. least my 'short' term memory fails of course.

I also find can speak my mind more (hope not hurtfully though !) .. will I get like Blanche out of Corrie or Catherine Tate as one of her characters who does this ? Fun though, 'cause get forgiven more easily, using my age as an excuse

Go for it Katex. When we were doing our travels in Oz we met up with a....how shall I say....late middle aged lady, who had sold everything she owned and was looking for a man to share her life......she was open and honest about her reason for her travels. She said she didn't want to spend a lonely old age and even if she didn't find a man she would have her memories of her solitary adventures to keep her warm.....me, well I'm not quite as adventurous as that...and I'd rather have a blanket.

shillelagh · 04-04-2006, 19:49

What makes me feel old? Well I have a niece who is 6 1/2 years younger than me - she has 2 kids one who is 3 in a couple of weeks and the other will be 1 next month, another niece hit 21 last year, another niece hit 18, my nephew was 17 last month, my other nephew is 14 next month and another niece will be 12 next month. Now that makes me feel old! Especially when you hear them talking and they dont realise that you are listening in!

The other question does time speed up - yes it does especially when you dont want it to!