Hey guys,
Frank and I have been talking lately about how one's relative perception of time seems to change over the years. Like, an hour used to be such a long wait, right? Now 6 of those can just disappear. Poof. So we got talking about one's perception of time and realized that when one was 5, a year was a full one FIFTH of your life, like, 20% of everything you've ever experienced or will experience is contained in this forthcoming chunk of time. But at 23 a year, well that's just 1/23rd of your experiences...you see what we're saying? This seems a somewhat disturbing proposition.
But wait:
Now don't let a negative trending graph immediately depress you...this is good! Compare our age now, ~23 years old, to our age 5 years ago... right when we've graduated high school, 18. At 18, our perception of a year was that of 1/18th our full sum of experiences while here, at 23, it's only 1/23rd. That's a pretty dramatic change, 23 over 18 is...1.3, a 1.3 times fold. Let's try another pair of ages. Lets see how bad it will be five years from now, i.e. 28/23. That's only a 1.2 times change. What I'm trying to say here is that this value is approaching 1, i.e. eventually a year will, ultimately, be as meaningless as a minute is to us now. Until then the rate at which we approach one will decrease, so our perception in
change of perception of time, i.e. the shell-shock we're all likely feeling now (at least I am), shouldn't happen again.
Also, in urgently important news: Frank and I are making some Pillsbury cinnamon rolls.
