I agree. To elaborate:-
A given duration of time pales away in comparison to one’s age as he/she grows older.
For example, a 20-year-old sees a decade as half a lifetime. For the 100 year-old it counts as just 10%.
A given duration of time pales away in comparison to one’s age as he/she grows older.
For example, a 20-year-old sees a decade as half a lifetime. For the 100 year-old it counts as just 10%.
But I do have a memory of my parents leaving me with my grandma once and telling me they would be back in 3 hours. I was 3 or 4 at that time and I remember thinking how mind-bogglingly long these 3 hours felt when they said it.
And, by the way, for me senior year high school seems the longer.
I buy the "you compare each experience to your previous experiences" argument. If new experiences happen at a constant rate, that works out to simple ratios of time, eg. senior year of high school was 1/17 of your life, freshman year of college was 1/18. But new experiences don't always happen at constant rates: some people open up much more in college than in high school. Hence it feels longer.