Time Passages

I spend a lot of time thinking about the notion of time.  Perhaps I spend too much time doing this.  I developed a very simple theory about time and why it seems to accelerate as we advance in years.

First, let’s assume that we have no conscious knowledge of any past lives we may have led and the clock starts to tick from the time we’re hatched from our mothers.

When we reach the age of ten, an interval of one year constitutes 10% (give or take) of the length of our lives to date.  Fast forward to the age of fifty, which is near where I’m at now on this journey, and that number is reduced to 2%.

Let’s do some simple math:  10 divided by 2 is equal to 5.  Therefore, I profess that time seems to travel five times faster for a 50-year-old than it does for a 10-year-old.  The good news for us AARP types is that, while time will continue to “move faster” for us, the rate at which it’s changing won’t seem to be as fast as it was when we were younger.  And that’s just about the only silver lining I can come up with on this topic other than to say we’re all wiser or something like that.

What do you think?  Spot on or B.S.?  I’m sure someone else must have thought of this but in the off chance that I’m the only one, this concept is officially copy written, patented, and proprietary so you can send me $20 if you want to use it in a public setting.

In the meantime, I think I’ll spend the next few minutes of whatever time I have left listening to the song that inspired this post:  Time Passages.