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If you would like to read some "time moves quicker" articles:

"Why time 'speeds up' as we get older"

- https://sites.harvard.edu/sitn/2019/03/27/no-not-just-time-s...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109066

"Why time seems to pass faster as we age"

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522249

I think it speeds up because we settle in a routine, and when every day is mostly the same the brain just compresses the experience. The younger you are, the more new everything is around you, and you may not know yet what is worth trying or not, hence more things happen, and that makes it appear to last longer.

As a younger human I too clicked here thinking it was social commentary on the passage of time.

My initial assumption before clicking was that it was about the Earth's slowing rotation, and my thought was "not very".

"The days are long but the decades are short"