When reminiscing I would always say, 10 years ago I…
Then one day I decided to count back to see how long ago it really was.
10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 35 years
The topic I was discussion was in reality 37 years ago😮
I no longer say 10 years ago, I say, Way back when…
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I’ve noticed I say “quite a while ago” a fair bit now - I must be getting old 
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Time stands still for no one.
I wonder why the passing of years seem to speed up as we age?
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I think it might be because when we’re young we’re taking everything in - everything is an adventure and a learning experience, as you get older you’ve been there done that, so our brains naturally begin to remember or notice less (or need to) so then our days seem to feel as they have gone quicker. That’s my theory anyway 
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I’m formulating a theory, but could do with some help.
It’s based on the idea that a watched pot never boils.
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The weeks in the school holidays used to quicker than the term time ones though 
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Well, there’s no point in hanging about 
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yesterday seems ages ago
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That’s one of the benefits of De-Faffing.
thats a coffee, innit, de-faff
That’s why one never considered a career in Law, too many Barista’s
The family arranged a party for me when I was sixty. That was about five years ago …or was it twenty? Oh yes, it was twenty.
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Hi
I am officially terminally ill, coming to the end of my life.
I have however lasted a couple of years longer than the medics predicted.
Time does pass quicker when you get older, the days seem to fly bye.
Life is too short to worry about dying, worry will not stop you dying.
The trick is to cram as much as possible into every day, as it may be your last and do things which you find enjoyable.
Everyday is then a blast.
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I’m sure that time doesn’t go faster as we age, but our ability to think and react is much slower. so we get the illusion that everything, including time, goes faster than it did when we were younger.
At 15 years of age, I thought people who were 40 were old.
At 40 I thought people who were 60 were old…
At sixty, I thought people who were 75 were old…
But now at 75 I don’t consider myself old at all…
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Aye,time is going far too quickly for Me…I’m no sooner out of My PJs in the morning 'til I’m back into them again at night, 
jeeze!..Never mind Years…why the heck do the days go so fast.
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I believe it’s to do with the brain losing its ability to retain short-term memory, I think I read somewhere, which changes one’s perception of both time and the passage of time.
I’ve been retired over three years and it feels like three months have passed. Last Christmas seems like couple of months ago and its difficult to grasp its building up to it again now. I took my wife to her first rock concert which was 25 years ago (!) and that seems like only a few weeks ago. I started work 48 years ago and it feels like a few years have passed.
Its strange to think that when I was young, things like Christmas would seem really slow and take an absolute age. These days, it’s all over in a flash.
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Yes definitely. This is the answer to the thread question! The older I get the faster time seems to fly past, I’m going to end up being left behind and shouting: “Hey Time, wait for me! I can’t keep up with you!” 
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I’ve forgotten the question. 
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Someone once told me, in regard to raising children, that the days are long but the years are short.
This still rings true trying to pack 36 hours into 24. Yet, when looking in the rearview mirror, objects are closer than they appear. I’m in shock when looking back at historic events in my lifetime that seem to have happened the other day, my children consider them ancient history.
As we age, I think we are less inclined to process the short-term memory into long-term memory. That’s why important memories of our youth and early adulthood seem to float to the top, even when dementia sets in.
I don’t know what we get in regards to our memory of skills, information, and experience once we pass this life, but I ponder that quite a bit.
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That is exactly what is happening to me now - events that I haven’t thought about for many years float into my head for no apparent reason, nothing in particular triggers them, they just simply arrive. I have talked to my son about it and he is interested in some of the memories that I mention, events he hasn’t heard about before. It used to concern me that my late Mother seemed to ‘live in the past’ but now it’s happening to me! However, it doesn’t concern me I just accept it as part of getting older - I am in my 79th year. I also think it may in some part be due to living alone since my husband died 3 years ago. I have more time to think! My son has often said that I think too much anyway.
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