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re: Why does 1975-1995 seem like a large span of time?
Posted on 11/16/23 at 11:42 pm to SidewalkTiger
Posted on 11/16/23 at 11:42 pm to SidewalkTiger
Saw a couple of You Tube videos on this and they claim we do actually perceive time as faster as we age. Has something to do with the amount of memories stored in our noggin and how we relate them to other events in our timeline.
But I’m too old to remember just how it all works.
I’m 73 now and figure I’ll be 93 in another blink of the eye … I hope.
Also, I was wounded in Vietnam in 1969 — 54 years ago — and that was only 26 years after my dad was wounded in a B-17 over Germany in 1943!
But I’m too old to remember just how it all works.
I’m 73 now and figure I’ll be 93 in another blink of the eye … I hope.
Also, I was wounded in Vietnam in 1969 — 54 years ago — and that was only 26 years after my dad was wounded in a B-17 over Germany in 1943!
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Posted on 11/16/23 at 11:45 pm to SidewalkTiger
Every year is a fraction of your life. When your 10 its one- tenth. When your 40 its one- fortieth
Posted on 11/16/23 at 11:50 pm to CSinLC
What really blows my mind is just how fast a week passes during college football season as opposed to a heat spell in mid summer.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 12:26 am to SidewalkTiger
Outside of becoming an adult and graduating from LSU Bo and Hope passed the time sitting by the pool at fountain head apartments. Went pretty quick.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 7:21 am to PowerTool
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quote:We did have the excesses we have now, but we had a richer life experience. Simple times You're just thinking of childhood. The only way the 70's could seem like "simple times" is if you weren't paying attention to politics, social unrest, or the economy. Domestic terrorism in this country peaked in the 1970s. Go read about the bombings in the 70s. Remember sitting in gas lines on your day? Good times.
It seemed simpler because there were no 24 hour news cycles bombarding us. If we wanted depressing international news we had to tune in at 5:30, local at 6:00 and 10:00.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 7:50 am to SidewalkTiger
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Why does 1975-1995 seem like a large span of time?
The bush was changing.
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But 2003 doesn't feel like it was very long ago?
The bush went extinct.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 8:21 am to SidewalkTiger
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Wonder why
The brain. It optimizes repeated inputs.
Every year you experience may have different events but much of it is the same, so the brain optimizes and the years start feeling shorter the more you experience.
The impact grows as we get older because once we get a job, kids, and responsibilities a daily repeatable schedule kicks in for a long stretch. Tons of repetition.
The only way to mitigate the effect is to make it a point to try new things on a regular basis. Mix it up.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 8:25 am to XenScott
Haven't thought about that before...My Mother passed in 2022 just shy of 91 yrs old. It hit hit one day about 7 months before she died, that she turned 10 yrs old a week after Pearl Harbor. I mentioned that to her, and she vividly recalled sitting around the radio listening to FDR declare war on the "Empire of Japan". She was the youngest of 7. Three of her brothers went to war. She looked at me and said she was so happy she lived during the times she did. She recalled how she loved the 50s and living in New Orleans during that time and how women dressed in high heels, dresses, and wore gloves walking down Canal Street. She then said to me "It passes sooo fast. Enjoy the times. Don't sweat small stuff. It'll be gone before you know it..in the blink of an eye. Make peace with the Lord and hang on to Jesus." Never forgot that. That generation is pretty much gone now.
Posted on 11/17/23 at 8:52 am to SidewalkTiger
Because not too much has changed drastically technologically wise or even fashion wise. Vehicles aren’t that different. Music and film. I think about stuff like that a lot too. You can watch a show or movie from 2003 and other than maybe baggier clothes and big hairstyles and lack of smartphones you’d think it was nowadays.
Posted on 11/20/23 at 8:52 am to Obtuse1
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The 70’s cars
We’re
Good.
Competes hard with the 80's as the worst decade of cars ever.
Couldn't agree more. Utter tailspin for cars, especially American cars. Who the heck ever thought a 77 T Bird was cool???
There's a reason they used this suit and car in Ron Burgundy and it wasn't a compliment.
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