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does anyone know what the following phenomenon is called (other than growing old).<\/p>\n

Brian b.1969
Time conciousness <\/p>\n

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I think of 1969 – 1978 as an eternity not 10 years
I think of 1979 – 1988 as half an eternity
I think of 1989 – 1999 as quarter eternity about 10 years
i think of 1999 – 2011 as about about 5 years it has whizzed by so fast. <\/p>\n

The younger I was the slower time ticked. The older I get the faster it goes. A week now seems like 2 days. Here I compare what is 7 days on the calendar to a time period I think it is, 7 full days & nights against what it actually seemed, 2 days, I got little done and my in tray grew in height and my to do list grew even though I did things… but I did so many things .. I don’t see them as a series of events but a motion blur. <\/p>\n

How much of this is email \/ IT \/ pace of the world (stop I want to get of the merry-go-round) How much is this due to growing old and wasting time when I was young when I could have been doing more. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Its my personal concept of time past & time present. But at this rate in a few years a week will be a day, a year will be a season and I will have lots to do and no f’ing time left to do it. <\/p>\n

Its the weekend, more and more work impacts my weekend and I am not a shift worker. I take Fridays off office duty to do a radio show. This week I did a day at home to avoid travel and I did 1 day out of the office. Which means I did 2 office days and next week I play catch up on top of dealing with all of next weeks new issues as they arise. <\/p>\n

At the moment I am doing some overdue credit control and some large outstanding payments are over 12 months due. I think this is an unusual situation but to think of it in terms of time, I think 13 months to be chasing payment is a long time but it seems like the work was only done a few months back (it wasn’t).<\/p>\n

Should I be trying to alter this concept of time, slow things down? coz I sure can’t imagine that speeding things up will help my situation. I have read that as we get older our brain function switches from fast at learning to deeper understanding. I would have to agree, but pitted against the law of accelerating returns \/ Moore’s law etc. and this human brain getting older I think I should have a planned exit from the arms race that is the global thermonuclear war information overload merry-go-round, I would rather that exit, than be thrown off the merry-go-round to a crash landing. <\/p>\n

What will be my exit – from this rat race <\/p>\n