In the late afternoon, people resume their activities albeit at a slower pace. On top of these natural times are built man-made times, whose rhythms increasingly shape our experiences of everyday life. You are behind time. Out of these various rhythms emerges a sense of life structure , featuring longer-tempo rhythms of one's career and family schedules, memories and future plans. The life structure involves the mental maps individuals have of their life-cycle, their sense of an orderly progression of life course changes.
Some individuals choose to have other, more mystical times influence their life activities.
Click here to see Americans beliefs in astrology by age and education. Maybe you noticed how much older a grandmother looked at age 50 than your mother did. Not only did the grandmother look more weathered by time, but she may have dressed like an older person, wearing black granny shoes and a baggy black dress instead of mom's Adidas and pastel jogging suit. Our pathways through time are shaped by both the developmental agendas described by psychologists as well as by social and cultural factors. The appearance of children as shrunken adults wearing small adult clothing in Renaissance paintings, for instance, was not the fault of the artists but rather how children were perceived.