Time goes by faster when you're older

[DonJuanDeMarco]

Not sure where I'm going with this one. Maybe it's the holiday blues creeping in.

I watched the Amazon movie "My Old Ass" the other night. Terrible name but it was a decent movie. It was a cross between a teen comedy and adult drama. I have an odd crush on Audrey Plaza. The little blonde girl was pretty darn cute too.

Anyway....one line really got me. It was something like "Time goes by faster when you're older". I was glad to hear that because I thought I was the only one who felt like that!

For example, when I was a kid in the 80's and someone mentioned Skynyrd or the Who from the 70's it seemed like a LIFETIME ago. Like 100 years old. Even old Aerosmith was ancient compared to Rag Doll or whatever.

But now....like Mike Tramp is on tour with his "Tramp's White Lion" band and I'm thinking...oh yeah, I saw his last White Lion band a few years ago. I double checked and it was TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO!!! My God!!! How did that happen? I still remember seeing the world premiere video of Little Fighter and even that doesn't feel like it was 20 years ago.

Like I said, I don't know where I'm going with this. I know it's a long post but it's kinda music related so I thought I'd share in case anyone was going through the same shock as I am that time is moving by so damn fast.

Incidentally, there is a scientific reason for this:

However, as we get older, we have progressively fewer new experiences. Equally importantly, our perception of the world becomes more automatic. We grow progressively de-sensitized to our surroundings. As a result, we absorb gradually less information, which means that time passes more quickly.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... %20quickly.

[whammybar]

The movie Cast Away came out nearly 25 years ago. A quarter century flew by, and you look to the future and at 66 know you probably won't be here in 25 years. And that space of time will whoosh by even faster.

[Metal Sludge]

Not sure where I'm going with this one. Maybe it's the holiday blues creeping in.

I watched the Amazon movie "My Old Ass" the other night. Terrible name but it was a decent movie. It was a cross between a teen comedy and adult drama. I have an odd crush on Audrey Plaza. The little blonde girl was pretty darn cute too.

Anyway....one line really got me. It was something like "Time goes by faster when you're older". I was glad to hear that because I thought I was the only one who felt like that!

For example, when I was a kid in the 80's and someone mentioned Skynyrd or the Who from the 70's it seemed like a LIFETIME ago. Like 100 years old. Even old Aerosmith was ancient compared to Rag Doll or whatever.

But now....like Mike Tramp is on tour with his "Tramp's White Lion" band and I'm thinking...oh yeah, I saw his last White Lion band a few years ago. I double checked and it was TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO!!! My God!!! How did that happen? I still remember seeing the world premiere video of Little Fighter and even that doesn't feel like it was 20 years ago.

Like I said, I don't know where I'm going with this. I know it's a long post but it's kinda music related so I thought I'd share in case anyone was going through the same shock as I am that time is moving by so damn fast.

Incidentally, there is a scientific reason for this:

However, as we get older, we have progressively fewer new experiences. Equally importantly, our perception of the world becomes more automatic. We grow progressively de-sensitized to our surroundings. As a result, we absorb gradually less information, which means that time passes more quickly.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog ... %20quickly.

Being older has a little to do with it I guess, but even my kids think time passes quickly, and they have since they were young.
I think technology has a lot to do with it. Instant gratification and all that.
I even notice it in myself. Commercials? Oh hell no! Who's got time for that?
If I'm watching a video and they don't get to the point pretty quickly, I scroll past it.
The attention span has been depleted!

[Love_Industry]

Anyway....one line really got me. It was something like "Time goes by faster when you're older". I was glad to hear that because I thought I was the only one who felt like that!

For example, when I was a kid in the 80's and someone mentioned Skynyrd or the Who from the 70's it seemed like a LIFETIME ago. Like 100 years old. Even old Aerosmith was ancient compared to Rag Doll or whatever.

But now....like Mike Tramp is on tour with his "Tramp's White Lion" band and I'm thinking...oh yeah, I saw his last White Lion band a few years ago. I double checked and it was TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO!!! My God!!! How did that happen? I still remember seeing the world premiere video of Little Fighter and even that doesn't feel like it was 20 years ago.

It's because nothing happens anymore, so it is just a blur. 2024 is essentially the same as 2004, while 1984 was nothing like 1964 in terms of music, fashion, movies, technology and overall culture. There was a lot more in a year or two back then so it felt longer.

Imagine the guy in 1984 listening to 20 year old music only, wearing 1964 clothes and only reading magazines that were around back then... he would seem hopelessly out of date but nobody would notice someone in 2004 clothes listening to hip hop and pop punk and using facebook, google, match and amazon today.

[Luigi]

After Iron Maiden concludes their next tour in 2026, their album Brave New World will be in the first half of their career!

[cowpins]

I think the longest period of my life was when i was a kid and had like four channels on TV and the President was on.

[Hatchets Molly]

Anyway....one line really got me. It was something like "Time goes by faster when you're older". I was glad to hear that because I thought I was the only one who felt like that!

For example, when I was a kid in the 80's and someone mentioned Skynyrd or the Who from the 70's it seemed like a LIFETIME ago. Like 100 years old. Even old Aerosmith was ancient compared to Rag Doll or whatever.

But now....like Mike Tramp is on tour with his "Tramp's White Lion" band and I'm thinking...oh yeah, I saw his last White Lion band a few years ago. I double checked and it was TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO!!! My God!!! How did that happen? I still remember seeing the world premiere video of Little Fighter and even that doesn't feel like it was 20 years ago.

It's because nothing happens anymore, so it is just a blur. 2024 is essentially the same as 2004, while 1984 was nothing like 1964 in terms of music, fashion, movies, technology and overall culture. There was a lot more in a year or two back then so it felt longer.

Imagine the guy in 1984 listening to 20 year old music only, wearing 1964 clothes and only reading magazines that were around back then... he would seem hopelessly out of date but nobody would notice someone in 2004 clothes listening to hip hop and pop punk and using facebook, google, match and amazon today.

I read part of an article on this recently, and that was part of their theory. The differences between decades in the late 1900s were huge compared to now. Sure, newish things like AI pop up. But those of us who stay tuned in to technology sort of see it as just more of the same. To think Y2K was a quarter century ago is crazy, but I was doing a similar job, wearing similar clothes, living a very similar life. It DOES become a blur and before you know it, you're speeding toward 60 years old.

[Love_Industry]

Anyway....one line really got me. It was something like "Time goes by faster when you're older". I was glad to hear that because I thought I was the only one who felt like that!

For example, when I was a kid in the 80's and someone mentioned Skynyrd or the Who from the 70's it seemed like a LIFETIME ago. Like 100 years old. Even old Aerosmith was ancient compared to Rag Doll or whatever.

But now....like Mike Tramp is on tour with his "Tramp's White Lion" band and I'm thinking...oh yeah, I saw his last White Lion band a few years ago. I double checked and it was TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AGO!!! My God!!! How did that happen? I still remember seeing the world premiere video of Little Fighter and even that doesn't feel like it was 20 years ago.

It's because nothing happens anymore, so it is just a blur. 2024 is essentially the same as 2004, while 1984 was nothing like 1964 in terms of music, fashion, movies, technology and overall culture. There was a lot more in a year or two back then so it felt longer.

Imagine the guy in 1984 listening to 20 year old music only, wearing 1964 clothes and only reading magazines that were around back then... he would seem hopelessly out of date but nobody would notice someone in 2004 clothes listening to hip hop and pop punk and using facebook, google, match and amazon today.

I read part of an article on this recently, and that was part of their theory. The differences between decades in the late 1900s were huge compared to now. Sure, newish things like AI pop up. But those of us who stay tuned in to technology sort of see it as just more of the same. To think Y2K was a quarter century ago is crazy, but I was doing a similar job, wearing similar clothes, living a very similar life. It DOES become a blur and before you know it, you're speeding toward 60 years old.

AI is in a way newish, in another way just a massively improved Microsoft Bob. Mobile internet was the most recent tech that wasn't a faster and better looking version of something before, and you could read simplified web pages on some phones in 1999. Well you could argue it was a development of regular internet, but going from having the web on your home or office computer only and carrying with you everywhere was really a game changer.