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Each decade of age took me half as long as the previous one did.
0-10 took forever
10-20 took 20 years
20-30 took 10 years
30-40 took 5 years
And I fear it only gets worse.
I feel like 50 to 60 took about 5 years. Still surprising.
I'm looking forward to 60 to 70, because that's all I can do.
Also, it used to bother me more, looking back and feeling like time had flown. I'm much more zen about it now. It is what it is. I suppose that's resignation, but I'm calm about it now.
I keep forgetting that I'm 37. I could swear I was 27, like, yesterday.
I've got a coworker in his young-20s who admitted to being "ageist." When he heard my age he reacted weird, saying something along the lines of not caring about people 30+.
I wasn't offended. I simply told him, "You'll be there before you know it." My other coworkers (also 30+ years old) backed me up. Dude can enjoy his time now, though from his response I suspect he might have a fear of aging that he's not fully come to terms with yet.
Long COVID was actually just me turning 40 and losing track of the years.
Although, I'll say that your perceptions can re-normalize when you have a little guy in your life. Like, people tell you "your kids will grow up so fast" but I'm feeling every single day of the Terrible Twos.
It does. I'm far closer to dying than living. I maybe have 10 more years, 15 if I'm lucky, (a debatable form of "luck").
TIL: forever/2=20
Imagine how long their pregnancy took
I'm guessing ℵ₁ years, give or take.
You just do nothing worth paying attention in these periods
We do the same things over and over--wake up, drive to work, work, drive home, eat, sleep. Our brains don't put any of that into long term storage. Have you ever turned the corner onto your street on your way home from work, and realized you can't remember anything about the drive? Only, newish, novel events get stored robustly. So, in retrospect it seems like the past year flew by, time is compressed in the long stretches of sameness, and only the differences stand out.
"Nothing" is a bit of a stretch, but it's true that milestones pretty much stop happening for much of adulthood. I've traveled, I've dated, I've moved and changed jobs. But I don't want to fall into a rut, so I've been working to give myself a new "milestone" every year. Last year I achieved a key certification for work. The year before, I learned to identify every country on a map. The year before that, I learned how to solve a Rubik's cube. Other things have been learning to knit, identifying every nation's flag, and learning to fly an airplane.
I'm not sure what to aim for this year, but I'm open to suggestions.
It's nothing compared to learning to walk, talk, and resist existential dread.
Having said this, I must admit that you live pretty full life