does time keep going faster the older you get? how fast does a year go by at 40?

[MP]

Pink Floyd - Time

Ticking away the moments
That make up a dull day
Fritter and waste the hours
In an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground
In your home town
Waiting for someone or something
To show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine
Staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today

And then the one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun

(Solo)

And you run and you run
To catch up with the sun
But it's sinking

Racing around
To come up behind you again

The sun is the same
In a relative way
But you're older

Shorter of breath
And one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter
Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught
Or half a page of scribbled lines

Hanging on in quiet desperation
Is the English way

The time is gone
The song is over
Thought I'd something more to say

Home
Home again
I like to be here
When I can

When I come home
Cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones
Beside the fire

Far away
Across the field
Tolling on the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell...

[#1 Klaus fan]

Also the perception of past changes. When I was a small kid in the mid 90's the 70's felt so distant and now it feels the 70's just happened (even if I weren't around then).

[anabolichalo]

You reach your 40's and you really put up with less bullshit when meeting women.  In your 20's you can overlook a lot of the annoyances that are displayed or uncovered.  I had met this woman for coffee last year and I couldn't tolerate more than 30 mins.  I literally looked for a clock, then said "Well, I think this should be wrapped up" shook her hand and left.  When I was younger I am damn sure I would have tried to find some way of sticking it out if there was a chance of getting laid.

haha i know this feeling

doesnt seem worth the time

[Rudee]

I remember the exact moment where I felt old.    I drove past my former high school one afternoon, and saw a group of kids hanging around the main doors and thought to myself  'They seem so immature and small'.   They just seemed so tiny.

[Krankenstein]

haha i know this feeling

doesnt seem worth the time

No, its not half the time.  I tried a dating site and thats where you REALLY have little patience.  The game playing is so obvious.  This is going to sound egotistical, but looking the way I do as a 40yo when I have talked to some of the women 45 - 50, you can literally smell some of their desperation.  I am sure I could fuck a high percentage of them.  Problem is, that just doesn't have the same allure as it used to be.  They are a different kind of psycho than a 20yo or 30yo.   I don't want to even deal with that.