Current Events > Why there is suddenly a shortage of time during all day when you become an adult

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I remember playing video games after breakfast, watching tv, playing indoor games before noon lunch is ready, watching cartoons on tv while mid day breakfast is made, playing outside and return after 3-4 hours and playing a few hours of video games again before dinner is made at night and watching tv before going to sleep

Not sure if its work, internet, long hours of gaming sessions, i do not have time to watch tv, must be a decade that i watch an soap opera or something on tv for that matter, do not have time to play anything outside or indoor games which is fine as being an adult and playing monopoly or snakes or ladders does not suit, but i do not have the urge to spent 2 hours doing nothing, i must spent every minute doing something and still feels lack of time, like i got a ps4 recently and i want to play uncharted 4 multiplayer overnight or just any game or watch youtube or do a week's work in advance but still have no time to do normal activities like spending 2 hours watching tv or half hour of exercise of just seeing the road outside

maybe lifestyle change is the reason but there is total lack of time these days as opposed to having a whole long day doing lots of things

now even if i have nothing to do, playing a game literally eats 8-9 hours of the day at the very least with only 1 hour spent for shower and food throughout the day but there are still 4-6 hours left to be spent elsewhere which i spent on playing more anyways

but in short there was no shortage or urgency of time back in the day
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You literally perceive time differently the older you get. I can't remember the exact explanation, but from memory there is a chemical compound in our brains that helps us perceive time that we slowly lose as we age.
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Blitz4532 posted...

You literally perceive time differently the older you get. I can't remember the exact explanation, but from memory there is a chemical compound in our brains that helps us perceive time that we slowly lose as we age.

there is a belief that time passes faster or so it feels so when you are having fun, i was having fun playing video games, indoor games and outdoor games and yet time was not passing all that fast as playing uncharted 4 multiplayer and 5 hours are gone like instantly

so it could that reason of perceiving the time
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Blitz4532 posted...

You literally perceive time differently the older you get. I can't remember the exact explanation, but from memory there is a chemical compound in our brains that helps us perceive time that we slowly lose as we age.

It's all relative.

When you're seven, ten weeks off for summer vacation is about 5% of your entire life so far that you can remember.
When you get to seventy, ten weeks is essentially nothing.

It's crazy to think about. Days seem to be gone in the blink of an eye and I'm only 32. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in your 50's and 60's and think that you may potentially have only 10-20 years left to go. Years can go by so fast.

As a kid, days (especially summer days), felt like they would never end.
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Ultima Dragon posted...

It's crazy to think about. Days seem to be gone in the blink of an eye and I'm only 32. I can't imagine what it would be like to be in your 50's and 60's and think that you may potentially have only 10-20 years left to go. Years can go by so fast.

As a kid, days (especially summer days), felt like they would never end.

yes the summer vacations, those were the days when i had time to do all that video gaming, indoor gaming and outside playing

when if think of school, days would go slow during that time too, especially during the boring school where time felt like it stopped passing
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Blitz4532 posted...

You literally perceive time differently the older you get. I can't remember the exact explanation, but from memory there is a chemical compound in our brains that helps us perceive time that we slowly lose as we age.

It's all relative.

When you're seven, ten weeks off for summer vacation is about 5% of your entire life so far that you can remember.
When you get to seventy, ten weeks is essentially nothing.

This.

Time gets exponentially faster as you grow older from your own perspective.
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