nospambob Loc: Edmond, Oklahoma

Actually, its your RELATIVES that age faster. Remember Einstein's theory?

George Kravis

Hey, Jerryc41, all I can tell you is that aging is a variable that depends on how well you're occupied. It's unavoidable, but can be tolerable, so "Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has no time to form!"

JustMePB Loc: Currently Indian Trail, NC.

Good one!

elwynn Loc: Near Atlanta, GA

I'm 87 and I greet each day as a gift. I don't think much about the future cuz I know it will be relatively short compared to the past.

fuminous Loc: Luling, LA... for now...

Yes, that's reasonably true... but also true is that every day we become aware of more possibilities- so many more things to do, places to see, people to meet, so much to learn and experience... and gear to buy. As our lives fill with possibilities, we gain speed- much as when one inflates a tire; as air is pumped in, molecules are forced closer together, they move faster and faster, bumping into each other generating heat energy while the tire expands. Compression, without expansion, can generate some serious heat. Same for us; we heat up as we recognize our potential but, we don't expand (well... we're not talking 'physical' here), that is, our lives don't extend to accommodate these new possibilities. Thus, we simply move through time faster and faster, hotter and hotter with every new possibility. That's the perception anyway... and, now that I think about it, why our bodies get old, too: for safety. Imagine knowing what you know now, recognizing the possibilities of today and having the body/mind of a 25 year old... Would your tire blow out? or just go flat?
Anyway, that's my theory...

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

I've noticed a couple of things:
1. The more you have to do or want to do the faster time flies. Conversely, the less you have to do the slower time goes.
2. First - nature abhors a vacuum. *"Nature" includes the thinking process of your brain.
Second - When you have a lot of current things in mind or some number of plans for the future your past does not intrude. But, with few current things or future plans in mind, the "empty space" is filled with the past.

joecashew Loc: N.C.

You know getting old is not for sissy's. That's what they say.

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

Really/

I was born in 47 and I now hurt in places that I never knew I had places to hurt.

I think my service to Uncle Sam had a lot to do with it.

WereWolf1967 Loc: Knoxville, TN

I thought that was about sitting too close to the color TV. She said I'd become sterile. Yeah Right, 3 kids later.............I must have had a defective TV.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

I agree! My years are now 1/76th I guess? :wink:

ikaush Loc: Medford, MA

Change your routine often! The time will slow down each time you do!

ConnieLynn

Time spent is the same, that is why I feel like time seems faster. One day is just like the next. The same routine every day with nothing to point our time past. I guess that means my life is a bore.

GregWCIL Loc: Illinois

I've always been amazed how quick-witted you are, Jerry. But now that I know you are only 37, it makes perfect sense.

erickter Loc: Dallas,TX

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mclsr Loc: Ohio

As we get older we have a better idea of what we should be doing with our time and what is involved in the doing it well, and the time to accomplish it keeps getting shorter, therefore time seems to be going faster.