The Passage of Time & Parsimony of Attention

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nah, not high. I wrote that just before supper, so I hadn't even had my glass of red wine, yet. It's just that I keep feeling like life is long and enormously full and interesting, while I keep hearing about other people who don't seem to feel that way at all. It nags at me, so I thought I'd use ilx as a sounding board on the matter.

i judge how old I feel by how I react to 69 Boyz "Tootsee Roll"

Time definitely feels elastic and to me it depends on how much BS I am dealing with at work. You sleep 1/3, work 1/3 and that sliver you get in-between seems to go by so quick. Sometimes days and work weeks are agonizingly long and then you look up and five months of a year have past. I got projects I'm working on for myself and you look back and it was 14-15 months since you started, but part of it is that you only spend a few hours a week on it, so the time is not condensed, it is spread over a calendar - yet it does not feel that way. I do find it somewhat strange.

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I'm not really talking about how old I feel. There's no question I'm old, especially by ilx standards. I notice it. I am tired and I'm slowing down. But time is not flying by me. A week still paces by, full of incidents small and large and by week's end I know I've been places, thought things, had many experiences. If I have another 25 years in me, I expect it will continue at this stately and regular pace. Is that weird or is it 'normal'? I can't say. I only know this is how it feels to me.