Do you ever get scared knowing a decade of your life has went by?

Question

When you remember an event that took place 10 years ago, does it ever make you feel like your life is going by quickly and it will soon come to an end?

Answer 1

Every time I have a birthday I realize how fast time passes. Do I get scared that it'll be over soon? h**l no. I've lived through fires, earthquakes, floods, a war and a bum marriage. Why dwell on the past or worry about the inevitable? Life's too short to worry about the things you can't control. There are too many good things that lie ahead for me to concern myself with past events.

Answer 2

Sometimes I sit and just watch the clock for a few minutes before realising that I just wasted that time in my life doing nothing. It scares me. I'm fourteen. In six years I will be twenty!! In one and a half or so I will be sixteen. It seems like yesterday when I was twelve years old.

To realize the value of one year: Ask a student who has failed a final exam.

To realize the value of one month: Ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of one week: Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one hour: Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute: Ask the person who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize the value of one second: Ask a person who has survived an accident.

To realize the value of one millisecond: Ask the person who has won a silver medal in the Olympics.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have. You will treasure it even more when you can share it with someone special.

Answer 3

No.  I get scared knowing that 5 decades of my life have went by.

Answer 4

Yes. Ä° cant believe Ä°m 25. The fear that we feel about death Ä° think inspires people to believe in God and the afterlife.

Answer 5

I felt like that on my 30th birthday. I just reallized that half of my life had gone by and that i only had another 30 or so left. that is what scared me.

Answer 6

well, perhaps not a decade but being only 18 years old it seems like I remember stuff that has happened 5 years ago as if it was last week, which freaks me out because its like "where has the time gone?"

Answer 7

I just realise that I'm a 32 years old man. hahahaha So it left 100-32=68 years. WOW, how am I going to go through the 68 years!!!! OMG...

Answer 8

I can relate to this fear.  It freaks me out that 10 years ago, I was in my twenties (well into them actually)...The strangest part is that it seems like yesterday!  BUT, I also believe that when you focus on what you fear, you draw it to you.  So, focus on the positive, fabulous (and sometimes hard) things that have happened in the past 10 years that have made you who you are today.  And if you don't like who that person is, make some changes.  Because in another 10 years, today will be only a memory and those years are going to go by whether you do something with them or not!  

Answer 9

What are you like 22 years old ? 10 years is quickly becoming a small percentage of my life.

Answer 10

Absolutely!

How I get through it being a negative experience?

I try to live in the moment.  For - if you truly think about it, that's all we really have.

So - remember 10 years ago, great!

Is it going by to quickly? Yes.

Can we stop it?No.

So enjoy life's journey. Imagine your on a vacation on this planet & make it the best experience of your life!

Answer 11

each life is short. in the longrun looking back on each one they could easily relate to the way my kids looks back on their classes in high school.

the differences between perception of time from individual to individual will never end. its relative to each of us. sure you could be in your mid twenties, but say you remember 8 past lives where you lived any range between 8 to 100. looking back at one decade seems like a splash in a moving stream.

but on the other hand a fairly new soul or simply someone who only has knowledge of their current incarnation, say perhaps in their 90s might see one decade as a large section, remembering only their current life that singular span of time would account for one ninth of their entire memory...

time is an illusion defined by our relative perception regardless. try to define it. is it merely by celestial movement, or does it respond linearly? cylcical? is it existent all at once or seperated between the walls of thought and physics? how solid are these distinctions if indeed it all coexists silmultaneousley and the only regulation it receives is through our vision of bits of it at a time?

just some other things to think about