Time

I had a conversation the other day with a friend of mine about a topic that I've thought alot about. I've always wondered why it seemed like time went by so much slower when I was a child. I've just been noticing that the older I get, the faster the hours, the days, weeks, months, and even the years seem to go by. Sometimes I can look at the look at the clock and an hour has gone by in what feels like a matter of minutes. When I think of when I was a child, I can remember my mom would tell me "I'll be home at 5" and it felt like it would take forever and a day for 5 o'clock to come. Even now when I wait for something, it still never feels like that long an amount of time. My friend found an article about this strange phenomenon and scientists have several theories as to why many people feel the same way about time. First, children simply don't have as strong an understanding of time as adults. Makes sense, but not good enough. The reason I really liked and makes the most sense to me, is that when you experience something for the very first time, more details, more information gets stored in your memory. First and early memories of new and exciting events are the most dense and detailed. So, the more times in your life that you do the same things, take the same drives, hang out with the same people, the less new information is stored and it feels like things went by faster, because you didn't store as much new information. So I guess the best thing to do, is to always make new and exciting memories throughout your life.