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Why do older people seem to experience time passing more quickly?
Alison Edwards
Lydney, Gloucestershire, UK
At age 5, one year was only about a third of the life you remembered, and the three days leading up to Christmas seemed interminable. At 30, a year, now 1/30th of your life, wasn’t very noticeable, though every day after your due date felt like a month; at 85, a year is a drop in the ocean, but you become conscious of your gravestone rushing towards you at speed, and of the winds of time blowing your hair out behind you.
Robin Adams…
