Time Flies

Wow, Outside the Box. I have neglected you! I can't believe that I went a whole year without posting on my blog once! Where does the time go? I know we say that all the time. But seriously, where does the time go? I don't get it. It's already February, it seems like Christmas was yesterday.

It's true what they say too. Time gets faster as you get older. Obviously, it doesn't REALLY get faster. But why does it feel like it is? I did a little research and discovered a couple of interesting things regarding this.

This theory is interesting because it basically tries to say that time goes faster because we aren't processing as much new information. At least I THINK that's what it's trying to say.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122322542

Another theory from someone on Yahoo answers:

"I think the reason is what I'd read in a poem ages ago. It said that as we grow old, more and more of all those whom we knew and loved are taken away, and we become more and more impatient to meet them once more!"

Um, ok. Can't say that I agree with that one at all. But whatever. Another popular theory on another board was this:

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.

I don't know. Regardless of what the answer is, TIME IS GOING BY TOO FAST!