Math of time slipping away....

[Rabbi]

Do you remember Return of the Jedi (1983) when it was released? It seems like a life time between that movie, and the Phantom Menace in 1999.  

 

There is more time between the release of Phantom Menace and now than there is between those two films. 

 

Silly thought but it really does feel like there was an eternity between those two film.  The Phantom Menace feels like it "came out of a few years ago...."  It is getting to where everything after about 2000 was "just a few years ago."  

 

 

[minderasr]

I find myself referencing movies at work.  Co-workers don't always get the reference because the movie was released before they were born.  Time and tide wait for no man.

[Historian]

Other than a biological compatability with the.pretty little redhead.....I have nothing in common with the younger people at work.  

They see me as the necessary deterant to their fears. I am useful but belong behind glass with a hammer. Break glass.in case of emergency.

[Huaco Kid]

Psychologists have said that time does "speed up" as we get older.

Remember when you were a kid and summer vacation lasted forever?  Remember feeling that next Christmas was decades away?

Now, summer only lasts a few days and Christmas never really goes away.

[willie-pete]

Used to work underground in a missile silo 7 days a month. A terrible job and we had a saying " Every day you spend above ground is a good day".

 

 

 

Now, I have that same saying, but it means something a lot different now.

 

[minderasr]

4 hours ago, Huaco Kid said:

Now, summer only lasts a few days and Christmas never really goes away.

 

Maybe if they didn't start playing Christmas tunes in all the stores right after Halloween!  Soon it will be right after Labor Day.

[RS_Rider]

When I was a teen in the 80's my mom used to listen to 50's doo wop music on the oldies station. Today my wife was in the kitchen listening to the 80's station. Hard to believe the same amount of time has passed between those eras. 

[Al Czervik]

It is called getting old.

[holyjohnson]

yeah,you`r old now.

[Peng]

I recall somewhere reading an explanation of time speeding up as you age using general relativity.  The gist being that time is not linear or constant, and it is perceived differently and actually faster as we age.

Anyhow, I was trying to talk to someone today and they had those damn earbuds in listening to music.  I asked if they could turn their Walkman off for 5 minutes and I got a blank stare.  I felt old very quickly, so there you go.

[Cubdriver]

14 hours ago, Huaco Kid said:

Psychologists have said that time does "speed up" as we get older.

Remember when you were a kid and summer vacation lasted forever?  Remember feeling that next Christmas was decades away?

Now, summer only lasts a few days and Christmas never really goes away.

I have something of a theory on that.  There are a few things.  First off, when you're young, any given time period is a larger proportion of your life - a year at age ten is 1/10 of your existence. That same year at age fifty is only 1/50.

But perhaps playing a bigger role - when you're a kid it seems you're always waiting for or looking forward to something. There are these milestones that are important to you - you start school in the fall, then are waiting seemingly forever for Halloween.  After that, Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then winter break from school, then spring break and Easter, then the end of the school year and summer.  Always something you're looking forward to, that seems to take forever to get here.  Additionally, these milestones clearly mark the passage of time.

Now we're adults.  We get up, we go to work, the sun stays up longer, we get up, we go to work, the sun doesn't stay up as long, we rake leaves, we get up for work,  it gets cold, we get up, we go to work, it starts to get warm and rains more, we get up, we go to work, it gets really hot out, we get up, we go to work, the days start getting shorter again...  Holy crap, where did the year go?  Wasn't it Halloween just a few weeks ago?  How is it here again already?!?  It all merges into a big blur.

And yes, Rabbi, I remember seeing the Return of the Jedi when it came out, and seeing it if not on opening day, certainly during opening week.  And I refuse to accept that that was thirty five years ago.  It is simply unpossible.

-Pat