Why does time seem to go faster as you get older?

Question

Why does time seem to go faster as you get older?

Answer 1

For me, time really does seem to fly by as I get older.  This is probably because you don't have as much spare time as when you where younger, meaning that you're in school/at work longer (where time doesn't go fast :D).

Answer 2

As you grow older your mind may lose endurance, leaving you frequently tired, absent minded,  memory loss, and even delirious!  Among these results, your eye-hand coordination drops as well.  This effect is the exact opposite of how a ninja's senses work.  Ninjas can use their fast, sharp mind to slow everything they see down.  A senior citizen's brain may not lose knowledge, but many lose their speed.

Answer 3

haha i'm 17 and i've realized this as i got older too!

i think it's probably because i mean...if you think about it when you were a kid...did you ever take a look at the clock to check what time it was? lol no..and you probably didn't even know how to tell time and once you learned it probably still took awhile to even care enough to pay attention to clocks and stuff.

so anyways yeah i just didn't care...i never thought about doing things on time and getting things done and now as a teen...it's like everything is about timing and when you have to be responsible for yourself you pay attention to the time..when you have to get up in the morning and go to school and when class is over and having your timed schedule at work and so on and so on...timing is everything as we get old and then we start to realize we're running out of it and then we start stressing about not having time and so then it just goes by fast

like that saying

"time goes by fast when you're having fun"

Answer 4

because each time period is a smaller and smaller part of your whole life.

the first hour was your whole life.  The second hour was 1/2 your life.  the third hour was a 1/3 of your life..etc....

Now a year is 1/62nd of all the years. and I would need a calulator to figure out how little an hour is.  

Also, on the other end, in the beginning there were many days to go.  you did not know how many, but you had to figure that there were many of them in the future.  Now there are only a few days to go as campared to the start, they are a smaller part of the whole, and the end is in sight.  makes things seem to be moving just all to fast!!!!!