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Why half of the life you experience is over by age 7
Have you ever observed that time seems to be going by faster as you get older? There's a reason that one summer seems to stretch out forever when you're a kid, but zips by before you know it when you're 30. That reason is perspective, as a gorgeous interactive visualization, by Austrian designer Maximilian Kiener, demonstrates. When you're one year old, a year is literally forever to you -- it's all the time that you've ever known.
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It helps to go on holiday and experience something new.
Indeed. New things greatly stretch out time. I visited Japan a couple years ago, and my 1.5 days in Kyoto felt like about 10 times longer than my 3 days in Tokyo, because I started in Kyoto and only made it to Tokyo a week and a half later. Or, as another example, the first month of college felt longer than the entire second semester.
Yeah, I'd always thought it was because you get more settled into a routine as you get older. Time seems to go faster when you're doing the same thing ad nauseum.
Ha! If half of your life is over by age seven, then you aren't doing near enough stuff.
When I read this I thought of something my friend once said to me: "Have you ever thought of all the things you do in one day?" Even if you do "nothing" the things you do add up...and up...and up. It's insane. Try really hard to think of everything you did in your day when you're going to sleep. It gets easier to remember them the more you're present while you're doing those things.
I've always mused that perhaps the reason you can't remember further back than age around 4 or 5 years, is because your internal time was moving at such a different rate then that you can't relate to it any more.