Where Did the Time Go? Do Not Ask the Brain

[groovedaddy]

That most alarming New Year’s morning question — “Uh-oh, what did I do last night?” — can seem benign compared with those that may come later, like “Uh, what exactly did I do with the last year?”

Or, “Hold on — did a decade just go by?”

It did. Somewhere between trigonometry and colonoscopy, someone must have hit the fast-forward button. Time may march, or ebb, or sift, or creep, but in early January it feels as if it has bolted like an angry dinner guest, leaving conversations unfinished, relationships still stuck, bad habits unbroken, goals unachieved.

“I think for many people, we think about our goals, and if nothing much has happened with those then suddenly it seems like it was just yesterday that we set them,” said Gal Zauberman, an associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School of Business.

Yet the sensation of passing time can be very different, Dr. Zauberman said, “depending on what you think about, and how.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/health/05mind.html?th&emc=th

[Schema Thing]

1. dude. Did you repost the same text twice just to fuck with my head?

seemed like just 10 seconds ago that I was reading this same thing

[groovedaddy]

2. Sorry about that! n.t

[tblue]

3. Lol!

I just really appreciate you making me snicker-chuckle.

You're not losing your noodle. The text was repeated. It must be important if he had to type it twice. It must be important if he had to type it twice.

[tridim]

4. 2009 blazed by, 2000-2004 took forever, but 2004-2008 went pretty fast.

Maybe it's just me?

I'm not a big fan of the time compression that comes with age, it's a very strange feeling.

[Meldread]

6. LOL. I know what you mean.

When I was a child, I couldn't wait to grow up. When I was in my early 20's, I was satisfied with the passage of time. But after that as each year has passed, it seems like time is moving by faster and faster with each year. Just thinking back on the previous year it feels like we should be in the middle of March of 2009 at most... yet here we are.

Life is just a constant march forward, with an ever increasing pace, straight to the grave. :(

[Fumesucker]

5. This effect is aptly and succinctly summed up in the old cliche'

Time flies when you're having fun..

[RagAss]

7. Another lame attempt to apply science to something that only seems to exist.

It's all been said before, but nobody ever listened...

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