So Does Life Flash By in the Blink of an Eye, Or Drag Out One Minute at a Time?

Ditto my friend.
Love the young officer avatar.

It depends if you're at the DMV or watching hot girls at the beach.

All depends on if your enjoying it.

I have lost two brother in laws and my father in law to cancer.

Yes.

You are not without company my friend. My wife lost her Dad from cancer at 64 around 6 years ago. My dad died last December at 88 and Mom has been in a vegetative state for about 5 years now with Alzheimer's ay 89. Few may care about them but us, but then that is enough, isn't it? Navy in the Pacific in WWII was a tough gig. I for one salute him for what he did for this nation. Give him my regards, please.

Cadet my friend, not officer yet. And I was a lot better looking then than I am now....

If you focus, tine will slow down. But then again time is relative, that, I believe.

Last Edited by Yearmz on 10/31/2017 09:57 PM

Depends,

if you are eternal or not.,,

Yeah, but when you were a cadet, you didn't know ROTC was the easy part. Now you do.

Time warping is essential to sanity

if the perception of time remained constant
parents would be totally nucking futz before the kids turned 18

remember how long age 3 - 18 felt as a kid
15 years it felt like eternity
to the parents it appeared to blow by in less time than had actually passed

even I with no kids
watching my friends kids grow up have been time warped right along with them

There are other places and relationships which cause the perception of time warping

Red light:
less than 2 minutes sometimes feels like 1/2 hour
this is detrimental

With that special someone in your life:
an hour or 2 can feel like 4 or 5 hours
this is beneficial

embrace the time warp
enjoy the activities which change the perception of the amount of time which has passed

Indeed, I remember when the guys wearing the varsity jackets were older than dirt. Hell, they even had face fuzz.

The current moments happen very slowly, but the events of the past are remembered instantly, so the past always seems to have happened quickly.

I can recollect on the past ten years of my life instantly, so those moments are compressed to this moment, making ten years mentally unmeasureable.

The idea of time is only a concept, a tool. We experience a perpetual state of "now". That is all we'll ever have.

If I live to the age of 80, I am sure I will look back and ask myself where has all the time gone. The time hasn't gone anywhere.

Well I did get a naval scholarship and was accepted to Notre Dame, and maybe that might have been a better choice, but you know, there's no looking back. Besides, the Navy is just so, so wet.

Time dilation.

"Everything you do in life is meaningless, but it's extremely important that you do it."

(anonymous)

What boggles my mind, OP, is that there has never been, nor will there ever be, a person who does not live in the moment, which can never be pinpointed.

"Right now" can be irreducibly divided forever, hence infinity is both the smallest thing and the largest.

Long and hard, and full of seamen.

Meaningless perhaps in the Big Picture, but the devil is in the details as they say. Right now and infinity may very well be the same thing my friend, no?

This is why they wipe your memory, a "hard reset". Its probably happened to all of us endlessly. An infinite amount of times, going both directions - back and forwards in time. We're programmed to live just long enough that we won't completely lose our minds (the majority, at least) and also so we can't catch the patterns that would expose the illusion. Maybe technology and record keeping will shine light on this. Could it be that we are all in a 500 year cycle, or the like?

What would it be like to read a journal entry you wrote 500 years ago? Would you recognize your own thoughts? Does our personality survive the wipe, or are we completely a product of our environment? Further more, maybe we are all the same soul, living life after life and interacting with ourselves... like a house of mirrors... And growing into something greater than we can comprehend.

This is an idea that volumes of books can, and probably have been written on.

The days go by slow, the months and years go by fast.

Without getting into the details of 'why' time speeds up for us: This is the most accurate depiction of how we perceive it during our life:

0-18 years = 50% of our time
18-36 years = 25%
36-72 years = 20%

@ 47, I can remember the last conversation I had with a buddy I haven't seen in 8 years like it was yesterday. We both pick up where we left off.

Last Edited by ChrisVet on 10/31/2017 10:59 PM

Pretty good for me. Most nights indent ok the corner smelling my own farts. Tis glorious!

I am almost your age...

My life has been like a movie with many chapters. I have lived in many places and I've known many people. Things do seem to begin and end in an instant, and change so fast, I was thinking about that the other day.

0-18 Slow. then it speeds up faster and faster as you get older.

Many chapters are almost many lives. I feel blessed to be able to have damned near experienced multiple existences all within the span of this very small time. This place is very interesting. I am glad to have been able to be here for a while and it sounds like you have been too. Thank you so very much for sharing.

:endorse99:

we live on a plane

plane - t (or x)

very good

If a pretty girl is sitting on your lap, time flies. If you’re sitting in the hotseat, time drags by.

Was almost in what sure to be a fatal car crash and it seemed like time went from being fluid to a series of Polaroid pictures snapped quickly and consecutively yet in slow motion.

If a pretty girl is sitting on your lap, time flies. If you’re sitting in the hotseat, time drags by.

Was almost in what sure to be a fatal car crash and it seemed like time went from being fluid to a series of Polaroid pictures snapped quickly and consecutively yet in slow motion.