Tempus Fugit- Yes, It Really Does!

So true!
9 months growing a baby seemed like a eternity. Her 46th birthday this week, years gone in a flash.

I read about this a while back. Our concept of time depends on how many new experiences we fit in during that period. A child has new experiences every day and their brain cells are firing all over the place. Therefore a year seems like ages to them.

By the time we're retired we mostly repeat the same things every day, and the more we do this the faster time goes.

However, if you go on holiday and have a lot of new experiences then two weeks can seem a lot longer. You probably think 'Goodness, have we only been here three days, it seems much longer' (because you've done so much in those three days).

This means that living in a care home is probably not as bad as we think because the days are literally going to fly by!

The summer school holiday was endless.

We were talking about this last night. One minute I was swanning down the street in my mini skirt turning heads and feeling on top of the world. In the blink of an eye someone is calling me nan. My husband is 78 today. 78! Don't get me wrong we are grateful to be here but what once felt like a lot of time stretched out ahead now feels like we are living on borrowed time.

“Time flies mind your business” it says on the church clock in Furneux (pronounced Furnix) Pelham in Hertfordshire. It does seem to fly faster as you get older. Isn’t it what Einstein called relative?

I remember being very aware at 16 of how the five years at secondary school had flown by in comparison to the 'lifetime' before that.
From then on, life has just kept accelerating at a horrendously fast rate.

Now I am in my 60s, and only today was listening to one of my sons bemoaning how unbelievably quickly the last 20 years have flown and how he can't quite believe that he is now in his 40s.
I didn't have the heart to tell him that the next 20 years will go far more quickly than he can possibly imagine!

My mum is in her 90s, and I'm sure she would tell me that for her, the last 20 years have gone even faster, and I can certainly believe to that - in fact, even to me, it feels that those years have gone even faster for her than they have for me. I remember her 60th birthday perfectly, and find it hard to believe that it was over 30 years ago!

In my mind, I feel no different from how I did 20 or even 30 years ago, but my body certainly keeps reminding me that i am no longer young. 😔

Exactly how I feel Kate1949

It'scertainly true about new experiences.. if I do a new course or
go to an exhibition my day certainly feels longer than a day spent at home which seems to whizz by.. but it is so dependent on having the energy to do things nowdays

Thia sums up how I feel.

A year at the age of ten is a tenth of your life, but at the age of seventy it’s only a seventieth - hence; tempos fugit.

Tempus! Grrr!

I saw that picture Kate.

Didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!

I cried!!!

I felt like crying, but only because I never looked like those girls even when I was that age. 😔

JamesandJon33

The summer school holiday was endless.

No. It was way too short!
Mine was (only) 9 weeks!

Kate I love that photo. How stunning they are. 😍

grannyactivist

A year at the age of ten is a tenth of your life, but at the age of seventy it’s only a seventieth - hence; tempos fugit.

Exactly grannyactivist I read that explanation once and it totally illustrated how the passage of time works!

More 60’s girls. I loved them!

I sort of did look like those girls. It was a great time. I look at myself now and can't believe I looked like that once. Still that's life.

Grannyactivist I think you’re right about the fraction of life.
It isn’t helped by the marketing-Christmas cards in August, hot cross buns and Easter eggs from January all seem to rush us onwards.
I do find though that the days between my work days go faster than they do when school’s out. On the other hand the summer break goes faster than the first half of the autumn term.

Kate where was the lovely photo from? Who was the photographer?

I don't know NS. My sister sent it to me. It looks like It's from Facebook. A site called 60s Around Sounds Music.