Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down. But now that we're older, how quickly the weeks, months, even years, can race by in a blur. Almost anyone in his 30s, 40s, or beyond will agree that time seems to have speeded up, or suffered inflation, so that it doesn't get you as much as it used to.
Time is a curious thing.
Despite the clockwork regularity of day, night, and Earth's journey around the sun, our experience of time is of a measure that's constantly shifting, contracting, or expanding. He's stuck in the present, and it can seem interminable. In older adulthood, people tend to do much the same thing, so there are probably not the same changes in contextual associations. Therefore, time seems devalued and to have passed quickly. When you add the perception of time speeding up to the feeling that many overscheduled baby boomers have of not having enough hours in the day, the result can be added stress, a sense that the video of life is fast-forwarding to the end.