Time passing by

Does anybody feel the time passing by?

I feel particularly conscious about time and age during my birthdays and new years etc. No its not my b'day today, but a big one is not too far away. It remember I used to think about this a lot when I was in school/uni as I graduated from each grade.

Lately I seem to float from one stressful period/event at work to another. (And yes a big one is approaching). Just seems like thats what I have done for last few years. Not really improving SP or progressing my life in a real sense.

How does others cope with it? Does your feelings of time passing buy get worse as you get older or you get used to it?

I am particularly interested in hearing the views of older ones here. And thats another thing, do you & why do you consider yourself old?

-SS

Yesss...times going by fast, before I left school, I used to daydream I wouldn't have social phobia after I left, and that I would get a good job and be all successful, go to my high school reunion one day and say, haha, f**k you all!!!

But here I am three years later and nothings changed....the whole worlds changing, but I'm not :roll:

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When I was in seventh grade- the night before it began, I was awfully distraught over how much time had suddenly, I thought, passed. D;
I still get like that occasionally, three years later.

But, oddly, I always need to know what time/day it is. If I don't know, I get a bit paranoid.

Uhh yea. I feel like I'm wasting my life. :roll:

I used to think the same, the myriads of humankind always pushing onwards in the (futile) effort to enjoy and work out life. Its a rush, no doubt about that partly because of death and partly because of this thing here we are discussing. Progress and prehaps the 'theme' that is commonplace. (sub-paragraph thing: I forget my age sometimes, since I dont do birthdays, so meh I dont care ^^)

From my perspective people learn all the time, progress goes hand in hand with base functions such as walking. To live, is a funny thing to say, to live is to 'get a life'?

So does that make me dead? :lol: .

No of course not. I have finally come to know what is 'life' and in reality and obviously, everyone is living it right now.

I think its great watching the world change, but do things in your own comfortable pace. If I cannot do things as fast as my friends in the office (metaphorically speaking) then so be it. Personally I give thanks to the living god what I do have and have learned to understand (im not active in religion either).

As ego-brained as it is, when someone says get a life to me I just feel inclined to ask "Define this 'life'" or simply "You do not know life". Regardless! Time is running out in the grand scheme of things anyway :wink: .

When i was in school time seemed to drag along and i could not wait to become a teenager, yet since i started working at 19 time seems to have gone so fast! I used to think that it'd be a long time untill i reached 20 years old and now i'm 26! My parents were married and buying a house at 22, and i feel like i have failed at life. People always say that ''you have your whole life ahead of you'' but i feel like my life is over.

Time seems to have excelerated as I have got older. It scares me, I feel like I'm on the Pause button while the World plays out in Fast Forward. I am in my early 30's and in my experience - time flies regardless of having fun.

Yeah definatley can relate to this :? (heya to any long time users who remember me btw.. havnt posted in monthhsss.. and had to make a new account cos im a dumbass and forgot my password)Im only 22 and i kinda feel like my life is over already,I dont think its particulary how old i am its just how fast the years are going by.. and the people i use to know,old mates ect.. there settling down having kids.. working there way up to good jobs ect and im still in the same posistion.Even the scumbag dealers on this estate and all the users have more of a life than me :? I am scared its not gonna be too long till im old and bitter looking back wishing i had made somthing of the lost time said fuck sp and done somthing with my life.But still each year i live the same.. scared to go out and try and change.

But i guess thats the horrible thing about sp,we know how precious time is but it forces us to sit on the sidelines and watch the world go by while we stand still.Anyway sorry for the negative ranting im always a negative bastard round christmas.

My god, I remember the endless summers when I was young and at school. It felt like I was perpetually stuck and would never be old enough to drive and then never be old enough to graduate highschool and be free. The only significant worry was getting a good grade or wondering whether that girl across the room was looking at me. The future was forever and I had all the time in the world to be who I wanted to be or get where I wanted to get.....later on.

One day I was old enough to drive, then the next I graduated high school. And then every year after it got faster and faster. Then it all become a blur of years and lost dreams. It's been years now since I even graduated college.

Its so sad when I think about about how much hope I had. How many things I thought I would do by the time I was my age now. How big my life was suppose to be. I'm still waiting though....too scared to do anything of any real change. And as the years go by, It becomes harder and harder to do anything of significance..It feels like its too late now. It becomes easier to just let the years go by. Watch my dreams fade and my health fail. Its too bad life is not a video game. I would have pushed the reset button a long time ago if I could.

Sheesh xmas and new year brought those feeling back... in a big way.

I suppose partly because, another years has gone by and also because xmas time is the time I meet my cousins, family friends and at times the few friends I have, who are in my age group (in fact I am on the older side of all those groups), yet they have made significant start to life (jobs/businesses, relationships, houses etc) or at least they have opportunities to make a good start.

I suppose thats why I hate this period more and not so much because of my fear of the gatherings them self.

I feel my youth is slowly getting away from me and with no significant progress. Well maybe apart from my job... which I hate anyway and feel like I cannot be comfortable or confident enough to do for the rest of my life.

As for others who have said, take life at my own pace. Well I wish I could do that. I want to be at peace. I want to not to have to worry about time it takes to progress and only think about achieving it. Yet it seems there are things that are difficult as one get older. I donno, relationships seems to be a big one. I know sometimes it seems like I am thinking about norms of a bygone era and a culture, but yet I can't dismiss all that advice as irrelevant.

Maybe I need to escape from those expectations and accept my fate of doing things slowly or not doing things at all. Although at times it seems like hopeless (after all if things have been cruddy for 20 odd years, are things going change anytime soon?) at times I still don't want to give up. I think I still have hope.


Anyway, Happy new year folks.

-SS

Yeah I can relate to what everyone's been saying. I'm 35 now, going on 36, and I feel old, like my best years are gone and I've wasted my life.

I dread every milestone now, birthdays, Christmas, New Year, because it's just happening all too quickly.

It also worries me that my parents are getting on and won't be around forever. I can't imagine what I will do once they are gone, it's not like I have my own family to be around.

Anyone know how to slow down (or reverse) time please?

I know I can relate to that. Um, right now I'm 20 years old. I can't say anything has really changed since i was about 15. I'm not going anywhere, I'm just getting older. What am I even doing here..

Can't find any reason to do anything. Even to go out of the house.
Everything is so empty, you know?

I have a lot of plans for my self and the one i love. I feel like time is very slow. I wish that I time is very fast and with it accomplishing my job faster. I realized that time is so slow for people who manages to observe time carefully while time is fast for those who enjoy things but forgetting them quickly.

I am a young adult and with the time I have I need to be smart, physically and emotionally fit. I want to achieve my dreams in the next 5 years of my life. I hope by the age of 25, I can buy a good house, car, appliances i like. I want to be with the one I love at that age because life is short.

Enjoy what I have for the present and think positive as much as possible for the future.

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