Does Time Go by Quicker the Older You Are?

Short answer is yes. Yes, time goes by quicker each year. Think back to the dog days as a child, those summers lasted forever until an eternity passed and you had to go back to school. As each summer came and went so did your birthdays. It was as if after grade 8, summers lacked the 'foreverness' feeling that they once had. A snap of the fingers would go by and you'd be onto the next grade.

In grade 12 shit goes by even quicker. Summers no longer were a snap of the fingers, they were more like, go to bed, wake up, what the fuck? I'm in university now?! I am writing this from the perspective of a University student and I can say university summers go by even quicker.

I talked briefly with my parents a couple times about this concept of time going by quicker and found out that every year for them is quicker than what I feel, it's like a blink of an eye. For them they've got this great time measuring device called a children. And those measuring devices aged pretty damn quick for them, almost too quick.

Now that we've established rough framework to support the notion of time going quicker I can now go to the next step and answer why.

When you turn the rip old age of 1 years old your entire life leading up to that moment was contained within the bounds of that 1 year. Your next birthday comes by and you turn 2 years old. Guess what, that 2nd year of life that you just lived is 50% of your entire life not 100% like when you turned 1. At age 3, the size of the time period between your second birthday and your third is now reduced to 33.3% of your life (or living 1 year of life out of the total 3 years of life is only 33.3% of your entire life).

What I am trying to get at is that after each year of your life it becomes more and more insignificant in size in reference to your life. When you turned 1 years of age that year was all you knew. If you could somehow remember what it was like to live during those first 365 days of life I'm sure it would take forever because you are developing first time experiences! From the age of 88 to 89 that year is only 1.12% of your total life, completely insignificant. Think about all those 88 years of memories in retrospect. 1 more year of memories is nothing.

While there is not a lot of science backing this claim I made (maybe there is i'm not sure, but I feel its more of a physiological thing) I o think it's still one of the answers to this question.

Cheers.