Time Flies

Why is it that time seems to pass by faster than ever before? It's been April since I posted last, yet seems like only a month or two. Each passing month represents a smaller and smaller percentage of the time you've lived. A year to a five year old seems like forever (it's 20% of their entire life). A year to a 50 year old seems shorter (it's only 2% of their life). In the grand scheme of things, it's almost nothing. Looking backward anyway.

On the other hand, waiting a year for something to happen seems like a long time for both the five year old and the 50 year old (but for different reasons). For the kid, the year is still 20% of their life so far (their only real frame of reference). But, for the 50 year old who has an ever increasing sense of mortality and the future, it's a growing percentage of their remaining life. A year seems like a long ime to wait when you don't have much time to live.

The older I get the more impatient I get.