Relativity

Time clearly moves faster as we age (as we slow down and the years accumulate), for the simple reason that each unit becomes smaller relative to our life. At one year’s old that year makes up 100% of our experience, while at four it becomes 25%, at fifty 2%, and at one hundred just 1%... And so life races on, an avalanche of sorts of all we have accumulated. It’s simple math, but just as our situational awareness places our body in space (and thus helps us drive, as the car becomes an extension of us) so are we placed in time by all the years contained in our body-mind. And yet, inversely as we age there is less of us to go around less of our neural net to spare for new experiences and memories, and so those of our youth remain formative sometimes larger-than-life while the present as we age become ever more fleeting insignificant even, to the point of senility. So, life goes on, within us and without us, and our experience of it speeds up as we slow down (and so correlatively slows as we speed up); Einstein had a simple theory about this which maybe came from just observing his life. (10/30/23)