[emerged]

Mine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some.

I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.

[dilap]

I'm about to turn 40, and I feel like perceptually life gets faster and faster, which seems to be a common experience.

So in that sense you may not do all the living you've done all over again and then some.

For example, I'd say my 30s felt half as a long as my 20s, which themselves seemed to pass much faster than than 10-20, which felt very long indeed. And childhood, 0-10, seemed like an eternity!

This is true even at a micro level. E.g. a 3 hour car ride now does not feel like a big deal to me, but it seemed almost unbearably long to me as a child.

Another way in which you won't do as much living as you've already done is that in your early years you went through profound development -- both physically and mentally. That doesn't happen again; we mature, we refine, and (sadly, hopefully not too much), we decline, but it's nothing near as profound as we get to experience early in life.

[beardyw]

Don't worry. I've got 14% and I can assure you that years go by at an alarming rate. It started for me at 40. 50 was on me pretty quick but 60 was there before I knew it. Now it's all just a blur. Probably best to do stuff now.

[throwawayboise]

Yep. 55 now, and the same. A year can pass and feel like nothing. Especially the last two COVID years. Just feels like a long nap sometimes. I think it's because as we get older, our lives are not changing much. 0-10 years each year brings big changes in our physical growth, intellectual understanding of the world, literally every day brings something new. 10-20 is similar, but the pace starts to slow down. By the time you're 50, one year is pretty much the same as the another. Kids are grown or close to it, you're probably not job-hopping, you're settled in your home. Everything is routine.

[falcolas]

Exactly. I hit 40 a few years back, and I’m statistically likely to live at least that long again. A lot happened in 40 years, and I was not in control of my life for just shy of half of that.

The next 40 is going to be interesting.

[ejb999]

>>The next 40 is going to be interesting.

The next 20-25 will be interesting for you - after that you will just be telling people to get off your lawn, and making doctors appointments. ;>)

[falcolas]

There is that risk, for sure. That said, i had to tell a kid (with his 4 wheeler) to get off my lawn just yesterday.

[throwawayboise]

The next 40 will feel like about 10 years, maybe less, from the perception of your 20 year old self.