[safety1st]

Please elaborate on this idea of time moving so fast in your 60s. It is terrifying to me. I'm in my early 40s and I already feel like it is slipping away from me so quickly. I want to achieve my ambitions and I also want to enjoy life, and despite being at the peak of my competency, it just feels like there's never enough time for both.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

If I "blinked" when I was 40 (in the sense of not paying much attention to what was happening over what felt like a not particularly long period of time), maybe a week would go by.

Now, it's months. Or maybe it's an effect closer to memory "time compression". When I was 40, 6 months of memories was quite a distinct cluster of different things. Now, 6 months of memories is closer to one memory. It's not precisely like that, and certainly not all the time, but that's a handwaving general description of how I perceive things these days.

[safety1st]

Yeah, this is absolutely horrifying. I have seen this phenomenon discussed before, and I can perceive its impact in my own life. It implies that from the standpoint of perception my life may already be mostly over without me having realized it.