Time Speeding Up as You Get Older: C or D?

I've been noticing this happening a lot more as I soak into my forties. It's occasionally off-putting, sometimes terrifying and rarely really quite helpful... for instance, the idea of a six hour plane ride would've sent me into a full on panic attack in my twenties but nowadays, that would be a snap. Similarly, difficult or unpleasant tasks disappear quicker. Unfortunately, I'm suspicious that these benefits are simply underlining the fact that I am lol dying a bit every day lol so that's a thing. Scary to talk with my mother and hear her say that fifties to seventies are a total blur now and that everything feels like it only happened yesterday and my god is that how old i am? Will that be how old I am too? It's feeling more likely.

Any thoughts, cognitive essays, links, general anecdotes, repudiation of the thesis are welcome.

i blame this as being one of the main reasons i have troubles playing video games these days btw.

I started a thread on a similar theme a while back. It ran a bit, then stood still.

it’s a dud especially when you’ve been wasting your youth

Aimless: was having a hard time figuring out what to search. Is this an ongoing issue for you still?

i judge how old I feel by how I react to 69 Boyz "Tootsee Roll"
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 18 February 2017

I've never had the experience of time passing at a fixed rate. Most of my experience of time passing slowly is through depression, watching the minutes tick past slowly on the clock. I haven't been as depressed lately, which is nice. I also don't have kids so I don't know how that affects things.

I'm OK with it. I always have something major I'm trying to do, and the more quickly time passes the easier it is to accomplish major things, because progress becomes more apparent over the long term.

Right now I'm also OK with dying, although that will probably change once I actually get some sort of terminal illness. I never wanted to live forever, but I've always wanted to be old. My dad spent the last 30 years of his life basically waiting to die, and I'm not doing that. Nothing to regret here.

Is this an ongoing issue for you still?

More of a reality than an issue. Time seldom, if ever, flies. Even when I am having fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception#Changes_with_age