Time feels like it is speeding up. When I was a kid, summer break seemed to last forever. Three whole months of playing baseball, Dungeons & Dragons, and running around outside until the streetlights came on. It felt like summer never ended. The next school year seemed like an eternity away... Now I blink, and suddenly we are already into February. It feels like New Year's Eve was yesterday.  

I came across an article that explains why this happens. As we get older, our brains process fewer details. When we are young, we take in so much new information that time feels stretched out. But as adults, our brains work more efficiently, skipping over the routine details, making time seem shorter. The days feel like they blur together.

This reminds me of that scene in Star Trek Insurrection when Picard learns to slow things down and fully experience the moment.

Or one of my favorite Rush songs, Time Stand Still, which has absolutely beautiful music and lyrics, and a horrendously cheesy video. Freeze this moment a little bit longer.

When you focus on something, time stretches. When you are stuck doing something you hate, every second drags by painfully slow. When I was in my 20s working as a programmer, I would be given a week's worth of work and have it finished by noon on Monday. The rest of the week, I sat in a little room, playing Solitaire, watching the clock tick by at a glacial pace. Which is why you never pay a programmer by the hour or by the line of code, but that is a topic for another article altogether.  

Now, I do work that I absolutely love and time speeds by. I sit down in the morning, get to work, and before I know it, the day is gone. It is 7 p.m., and I have no idea where the time went.  

What about you? Do you feel like time is speeding up? Have you found ways to slow it down?

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P.S. I found a way to include all three of my passions in one article: D&D, Trek, and Rush. Huzzah!

P.P.S. Even though Rush's video was fantastic 80s cheese, here's a beautiful rendition by the US Army Band.

P.P.P.S. I told the AI to make me an image including everything in this article (time, computers, Rush, D&D, and Trek) and I am not disappointed...