... You are born - just like David Copperfield. Twelve months later, your family will celebrate your first birthday, which you won't remember. Nor will you be aware that, during the following year - between your first and second birthdays - you will be living exactly one-half of your life. By the time things start happening that you do remember - let's say between your third and fourth birthdays - you're already living a mere quarter of your life. And so it will continue, each succeeding year a smaller fraction of the time allotted you.
This is, of course, just a variation on Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion, but it may go some way toward explaining the feeling you have, as you grow older, that time is passing at ever greater speed.
This is, of course, just a variation on Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion, but it may go some way toward explaining the feeling you have, as you grow older, that time is passing at ever greater speed.
So that explains it. And these last few days, as I brought my 19 year old daughter home for the summer after her first year of college, I've been wondering where it went...All those years. I still have very vivid memories of my beautiful daughter as a baby girl and me as a young mom. Now I'm middle-aged and she's a gorgeous grown woman. Next time I see a big-eyed beautiful baby like her, it will probably be her child or her brother's.
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