Anyone else feel like 2013 went by WAY too fast??

It's already the last day of 2013. I swear it feels like I was celebrating New Year's 2013 just two weeks ago. I think it was because I moved to London in October and it was a move that I first found out about in February. It was my first international move in 9 years haha. Other than that, I got into university for 2014 entry. Also, some of my closest friends already started uni back in September so it was a lot different. It was quite a year!

Lol these are probably some of those 1 AM thoughts that I normally have :colondollar:

Anyone else feel like 2013 went by too fast? Why do you think made it go by so fast?

Reply 1

Yakob

10

I'm going to be 21 next year, I can't believe. I still remember being at my infant school: lying to my teacher that I went to the headmistress' office, picking up raisins of the floor to eat after somebody dropped them, trading Pokemon cards, pretending to be a dog in the school field, experiencing my first splinter etc...

Gone too fast.

Reply 2

4TSR

2

It so did! So so so so fast.

Reply 3

vendettax

We're going to die soon.

Reply 4

Kvothe the Arcane

20

No. I was painfully aware of the passing of each day

Reply 5

Eva.Gregoria

21

It's going faster because of rapidly advancing technology. Even my mum agrees that its going faster now that she's older than when she was younger.

If we both think the year is going by rapidly, it has to be because we have so much more clouding our minds and distracting us that we don't have time to really chill and enjoy life like people could in the past.

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Reply 6

Mike_123

18

Yeah, that's because there was one extra day in 2012.

Reply 7

whatisthis47

18

Nup. Didn't go fast enough for me!

Although now that I think about it, my nephew is 9 months old today. Feels like he was born just yesterday! :cry2:

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Reply 8

jemi38

OP

9

Original post by Yakob

I'm going to be 21 next year, I can't believe. I still remember being at my infant school: lying to my teacher that I went to the headmistress' office, picking up raisins of the floor to eat after somebody dropped them, trading Pokemon cards, pretending to be a dog in the school field, experiencing my first splinter etc...

Gone too fast.

Yeah! I'll be 18 in March and I keep reflecting back on my childhood. Just earlier today, I was reminiscing to my sister about about living in Indonesia and what I did as a 4 year old haha.

Original post by Eva.Gregoria

It's going faster because of rapidly advancing technology. Even my mum agrees that its going faster now that she's older than when she was younger.

If we both think the year is going by rapidly, it has to be because we have so much more clouding our minds and distracting us that we don't have time to really chill and enjoy life like people could in the past.

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That's probably true! It seems like I never have time to take it slow and enjoy life. I think we''re all a bit too addicted to social media and such. It would be a good resolution to limit social media and do something else instead.

Original post by Mike_123

Yeah, that's because there was one extra day in 2012.

One day doesn't make a huge difference, does it? Yes, a lot can happen in a day. It just seems an extra week would make more difference. It's probably just me; everyday goes by fast

Reply 9

super_kawaii

20

It's honestly crazy how fast it's gone! 2014 means new friends and new opportunities! It also means going back home to England, which I'm looking forward to a lot

Reply 10

Maid Marian

20

People say this every year ...

Reply 11

Robbie242

yes it went so fast for me as well

Reply 12

mjj22

12

It went syprisingly fast! Thank goodness. Am ready to leave that hell hole called High School :smile:

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Reply 13

JacobAlevels

7

No actually not any faster than the past 17 years.
It's a mathematical phenomenon:

If you have time on the x-axis of a graph, and it covers 5 years of time. There is a segment of that axis that covers one year, it appears to be 1/5th of the time.
As a five year old, this is abstractly the case - you have a 5 year long reference line. As a 10 year old, the reference line is 10 years long, leaving a single year as a smaller fragment of your subjective universal time. As a 50 year old, it becomes smaller still with respect to your memory of the time you've been alive. I imagine the effect is exacerbated as accessibility of memory decays, if not the memories themselves.

There's also an additional perceptual component:

We tend to ignore the 'familiar' as it's not 'new and interesting'. As we age, more and more becomes 'familiar'. If less happens that is 'important' less time seems to pass.

Reply 14

BlossomS

9

It went REALLY fast. And now comes the panic mode for 2014....

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Reply 15

CJKay

19

Original post by Maid Marian

People say this every year ...

+1 for being the first person to notice despite being, like, the 5th reply.

Reply 16

meenu89

19

The years fly by as you get older.

Reply 17

username917703

17

Who cares, World Cup in June. 162 days to go.

Reply 18

xoxAngel_Kxox

21

I know people do say this every year, but in my opinion it's never been as noticeable personally as it is this year. I wasn't looking forward to 2013 for various reasons, and just thought that it would probably drag. Over the past week, I've found myself getting confused between this year and this time last year, because it genuinely feels close enough to be the same Christmas! I can remember one evening this time last year when I watched a particular film, and it's so scary to think that it's an entire year ago that it happened.

Perhaps if I spent less time wasting my time, I'd make more of my time. Yes.