A good rule of thumb to avoid an existential crisis is to think to yourself, what were you doing 9 years ago? I was barely 20 and moving out of my parents house and going out on my own for the first time. Seems like it just happened, but then i remember all the life I’ve lived since then and it starts to make a lot more sense.
Time always flies by in retrospect, but if you remember what you were actually doing back then it can help put things into perspective about how long ago it actually was. Like, people always say things like “Skyrim came out like 13 years ago? Where the hell did all the time go!” But then I remind myself that when Skyrim came out I was a freshman in highschool. Not only that, it was almost half my entire lifetime ago. Yeah, I’m old. But I’ve also lived a lot of my life since high school.
Anyway, this always helps me, so I hope it helps you. :)
A lot of times, when time feels like it went fast, is when you are trying to contextualize the time based on a limited scope of events. And since you only did stuff related to that scope a little bit within that time frame, it feels like it happened faster. So what you are doing there, is widening the scope to include more context.
A good rule of thumb to avoid an existential crisis is to think to yourself, what were you doing 9 years ago? I was barely 20 and moving out of my parents house and going out on my own for the first time. Seems like it just happened, but then i remember all the life I’ve lived since then and it starts to make a lot more sense.
Time always flies by in retrospect, but if you remember what you were actually doing back then it can help put things into perspective about how long ago it actually was. Like, people always say things like “Skyrim came out like 13 years ago? Where the hell did all the time go!” But then I remind myself that when Skyrim came out I was a freshman in highschool. Not only that, it was almost half my entire lifetime ago. Yeah, I’m old. But I’ve also lived a lot of my life since high school.
Anyway, this always helps me, so I hope it helps you. :)
A lot of times, when time feels like it went fast, is when you are trying to contextualize the time based on a limited scope of events. And since you only did stuff related to that scope a little bit within that time frame, it feels like it happened faster. So what you are doing there, is widening the scope to include more context.
It seems like only yesterday I was playing Astro Wars with my brother. Where did the time go?