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Allah<3
I agree with you. I am 21 now and time passes by WAAAAAY faster than 5-7 years ago. Why is that? I think it is because we are preoccupied with so much things that we forget about the time.
Nobody knows real answer to question as why. Here is one of the theories:
"When you're five years old, a year is one fifth of your life. That makes it seem like an impossibly long time, especially if you're five and have to wait until next year for something you really want.
In comparison, when you're 20, a year is only one twentieth of your life, and while the days don't exactly fly by yet, a year doesn't seem like the eternity it was at five.
By the time you're 50 and a year is only one fiftieth of the time you've experienced, a year whips by pretty quickly.
That's the main reason that time seems to go faster as we get older. Another factor is how we spend time. Children are incredibly focused in the now. They are totally present in moment, totally absorbed in whatever they're doing. As we get older and begin to do more and have more complex thought processes, we begin to perceive time a bit differently. Unfortunately, it's hard to quanitfy these kinds of perceptions, so it's hard to say how much this really impacts our perception of time as we get older."