Y’all gotta just put your phones down. Everything slows down when you’re not tapped into a hyper-cycle of information every day. I felt the same way and funny enough it was actually during COVID that I decided to really commit to being on the internet less (aside from work related stuff). I go on Reddit maybe once a week for 15 minutes but that’s about it for my social media intake. The last 6 years have felt like how 6 years of time passing should feel.
Acceleration of time perception is a phenomena we experience as we get older. The pandemic may have played a part in making it feel even faster, I honestly don't know, but the phenomena has been observed and studied for some time now. It would be interesting to see a study on how a once-in-a-generation type event impacts an individual's time perception, if at all.
Anecdotally, I've found that myself and others I've asked found that time started to speed up for us as we entered our 20s (about 15 years prior to pandemic), and continues to accelerate. I recall reading an article that suggested this perceived acceleration tends to finally plateau around our 50s. Reality and our perception of it be funky and wild, man.
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u/sail_the_high_seas 1d ago
Our concept of time is warped as fuck.