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Originally Posted by Villages PL
I remember time going by very slowly when I was about 4 years old. I kept asking my mother when I would be going to school, like my brothers and sister. She would tell me but I didn't understand the concept of measured time. So it just seemed like going to school was never going to happen.
As the years go by we eventually learn how to "tell" time and read calendars. We get better and better at it and fill up our days with routine things that we do. And that, I believe, is what makes time go faster and faster.
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I always reasoned that time seems slower as a child because your point of reference is different. In other words if you are 4 years old a years worth of measured time seems so long because it represents 25% of your life on earth. Compare that to a year when you are 50 years old that year only represents 2% of your time experience on earth. That's a big difference even though in each case we are comparing 1 year of measured time