Today life has moved onto the fast lane: you Blackberry instant message your parents, get updates about your friend’s life on Facebook, follow a thousand people on twitter and know what they eat and who they date before you actually meet them – in cyber space, of course!
And as news have started to travel with the speed of sound, time has had to adjust and is now moving faster than ever before.
Think I am talking nonsense?
Think back and remember when you were younger – didn’t the time between two Christmases’ seem like an eternity? Wasn’t the wait between birthdays almost unbearable? And think about how it is now? Have you not found yourself saying “I can’t believe January is over and it’s February already! Time flies by!”
Now you may say that time just seems to move slower when you’re young because there is so much to do, discover and explore – days seem endless and filled with so many new impressions and memories! But as you grow older, the novelty of life sadly wears off, things are less exciting and life just seems to move faster.
Unfortunately researchers found that this theory doesn’t actually hold. Another theory, which suggests that time moves faster if we feel rushed in life, explains more of the variance in subjective speed of time than age (age accounted for 4%, feeling rushed for 10% of the variance), but can still not fully explain the common perception that “time moves faster as you get older”.
But while the explanation may be missing, the evidence that time does in fact speed up is crystal clear.
Want prove?
On the 21st of January, just four weeks after Christmas, I spotted the first Chocolate Easter Bunny! Arriving three months before Easter and before the left-over Santa’s had a chance to flee the shops, the super speedy 21st century Easter Bunny clearly makes the old Easter Bunny of your childhood days seem like a lame duck…
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