Time is wrinkled for children, passage through it takes longer, the day has many crannies, secret folds. It flattens as you age, until it feels like morning, afternoon, and night are its only chambers.
From this tweet.
I've already written on why time seems to pass faster for adults, here. Essentially, I don't think this is inherent to growing up, but it is indeed a major trend within modernity, where people stop paying attention to the world around them and slowly become automatons, which is a very useful trend for the usefulness to the system, but terrible for being a fulfilled individual.
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2024-10-27