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Do you think the year has flown by quickly?

DaisyRose

DaisyRose

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I can’t believe it’s August already. This year is almost gone already and I’m like what happened to it. I just remember 2023 starting and now we only have four months left. My mom always said when you graduate high school, time flies by.
 
Yes, I'm panicking a little. I just can't believe how fast the summer went by. Now it's just a matter of getting a lot of things done as fast as possible for me. And that means wearing myself out and doing a lot of boring stuff. I'm so disappointed, it wasn't supposed to go this fast, I need more summer.
 
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I'm looking forwards to when the weather cools down so I won't be stuck in my apartment as much. I do like my apartment, all my stuff is in it, ha ha. But taking a short walk to a store just to buy a carton of milk and coming back home a hot sweaty mess is torture and reminds me that humanity is doomed. It's hard trying to estimate how much of something edible will last through at least one week, but not go bad before I use it all and you can't really trust the best before dates.

Of course I'm not looking forwards to infectious diseases running more rampant than before again. It's never just a cold anymore, it's either covid or a deadly strain of flu. It's never just a stomach ache, it's norovirus. It's never just a headache, it's a brain tumor. But at least brain tumors aren't contagious... maybe. And I also have to worry about hurricanes and power outages that could last more than a day. I'm afraid to buy food that needs to be kept frozen because after Fiona last October I had to throw out of ton of food that wasn't even touched in my freezer. What a waste, but I can't risk food poisoning on top of everything else.
 
The year has gone rather fast. We are pretty much in the dog days now. As my Uncle says; "Time tends go faster the older you get."

I really cannot disagree. It seems the time we think we have, isn't as present as it use to be. Maybe because of jobs, children, family, or life in general taking up our focus. Or it's just our perception of time that has changed. Either way, there is never enough hours in the day to do everything.
 
Contrary to what the media and everyone I speak to seems to think - this UK summer has been lovely. A brief heatwave in June and then nothing but cool weather and rain.

But yes, the year is going by quick. I think life will go a lot quicker for me in this job as I don't have weekends off anymore. So I no longer have a very good reference point for where I'm at during the week.

Whilst I check my rota daily and know what day I'm on, something doesn't quite feel real. I notice it quite a lot throughout the day - I'm doing such a hands on, social and empathetic job that I feel like I'm going through the motions without ever really feeling like I'm at the helm.

Strange really. Clearly I am present, and yet at times it feels like I'm in the passenger seat.

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No. It's been long for me. I still can't believe we're only on the 5th day of august. Feels like it should be at least the 10th day.
 
You're right, time goes slower when you're at school. I remember when I was at school there was 5 or 6 weeks between each school holiday and it seemed ages and ages. But now if I had a holiday (1-2 weeks off work) every 5-6 weeks it would be absolutely great lol and it wouldn't feel like too long between holidays.

It can be so weird sometimes. When I was twenty, being ten 10 years ago seemed a long, long time, like ''wow I was ten 10 years ago, that's a long time ago!'' But now at thirty-three, 10 years doesn't seem long at all. I was twenty-three 10 years ago and it only feels like a short time ago. I was thirteen 20 years ago, which seems a long time and makes more sense, but I wonder if when I'm forty-three 20 years won't feel that long at all?
I wonder how long 50 years feels to a seventy-year-old?
 
It's gone by quite slow for me or maybe I've stopped noticing it

I hope winter gets here soon and it's a very cold one
 
Forest Cat said:
It's a little weird, those 20 years went by fast. But at the same time they also felt like 120 years. I'm exhausted. Time is a weird thing.
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Yeah, kind of the same. My timeline has never felt linear so time always feels kind of weird.
I've done a lot this year, but it's not nearly enough. I'm hoping I'll be more efficient in this second half.
 
Since I’ve been an adult, time has gone by way too fast for my liking.
It terrifies me how fast the past decade has gone by. I will be old and dead before I know it.
 
Yes. The older you are the quicker time goes. I'm horrified how quick time goes. Someone told me that older people have some changes in brain so feel time in different way. I suppose it is true.
 
Kern said:
Yes. The older you are the quicker time goes. I'm horrified how quick time goes. Someone told me that older people have some changes in brain so feel time in different way. I suppose it is true.
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I think is just the relative perception of time. If you're 5, 1/5 of your lifetime is a good chunk, but at 80 seeing back the last 1/80 of your liftime doesn't feel like a lot.
 
Well, if you're Mick Jagger or Keith Richards, I guess time really is on their side. Yes it is! :cool:

Me? Not so much....:eek:
 
The saying the days are long but the years are short rings so true. I had some pretty long days this summer, but it’s already August, and the summer has flown by so fast as I’ve spent it working my life away.
 
We didn't get much of a summer this year in the UK. We seem to be the only country in Europe who have had the most rain and the least heat this summer. I'm not saying droughts and bush fires are better because they're not.
 
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