Conventional wisdom or old wives tales would have us believe that time actually speeds up as we age. Remember when we were small and the school day seemed to move at a glacial pace? Or how it took eons for Santa to finally make an appearance?
While it does seem to me as if Christmas comes all too quickly each year, which would substantiate the belief that the clock hands whip around the dial at an ever increasing pace, Still, I experience plenty of times when time tortoises. Like in meetings. I hate meetings. Or in the dentist chair.
I must say that I haven’t noticed time speeding up. Lately though, I have caught time behaving in unexpected ways, time warping if you will. It would make seem logical to me that time set aside for enjoyment would pass quickly while chore time might drag. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
What I’m talking about is a weird sort of time distortion. For example, the day we spent waiting for the tsunami lasted about a week. That makes some sense to me, I guess.
However, this past week lasted about a day except for yesterday which seemed to last nearly 3 days. Yesterday was a fun day — set aside for Lei Venus and I as an art day. Today is a work day whizzing by even without the notorious time sucks of Facebook and Twitter.
That gives the lie to leisure time going by in an instant and work time dragging on slowly.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t a manifestation of Menopause brain fog — my brain seems to be working as well as it ever doesn’t these days. Is there a tear in the space-time fabric?
All this musing (read perseverating) about time came up because I could swear I just wrote a blog post a day or two ago. And it’s been a week! Some days I feel like an elder Alice whose fallen down the rabbit hole and can’t get up. And everything is topsy turvy. Especially time.
Is anyone else experiencing time warps? Does time speed up as we age? Tell me it isn’t just me.
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You know, it’s so funny that you feel this way, because I feel just the opposite. Just today, I was sitting at a traffic light and thinking, my God, it seems like everything has slowed down so much. This past year has dragged on and on. Sometimes, I feel like I’ve been around for 150 years!
LOL. Okay, maybe we should have exchange transfusions between the two of us to help us with the time distortions. Although I have to say that I’ve had days when I’ve felt that I’ve been around forever and a day, they are infrequent.
I think I’ve been menopausal FOREVER. I’m still having hot flashes/nite sweats, and time, well, either it goes so fast I wonder if I was even there, or it drags so slow, I think Superman is slowing the world down. My brain fog is not so much fog, as inattention. BUT, I’m getting better and focusing more, so maybe there is an end in sight. Its so nice to know other women deal with all this too. I’m the first woman in my family to go thru menopause naturally. So knowing what’s “normal” and what’s not has been nonexistent.
That’s for sure -we are the trailblazers finding out what about The Big M is normal. Thankfully, our generation talks to one another, shares and compares notes so we can find out that all this unbelievable stuff IS normal. Heck, we’re women. We can handle anything if we know it’s normal and won’t last forever.
I too am the first to go through menopause normal. How sad is that? Our mothers couldn’t even guide us cause they never when through it. To many surgeries on the generation before us. Over bleeding? Cut it out. Dr.s need to seek ways for the body to come in balance and heal itself, without cutting without drugs. That is my proposal for the New Health Care, lets get back to health not treating disease only.
You are so right on! Luckily I was a nurse and literally fought to find a dr. who didn’t want to do a hysterectomy for the heavy bleeding I had in perimenopause (a year and a half – I ate tons of red meat). I sensed that it was really just a normal variant, and as long as I worked not to become anemic, it was fine. Tests ruled out cancer or other serious conditions. And eventually, it worked out. So many women I know (nurses too) ended up with no uterus when heavy bleeding commenced. Medical professionals have no idea what is normal – we have to educate them as well as ourselves. Okay, climbing off the soapbox now. And thanks.
I have a mantra I use about time. It works! I control time, it doesn’t control me. I have made vacations that are only a week long feel like three, and work days, when I don’t want to be there, feel like minutes. Time to me is a frame of mind. I don’t wear a watch, I don’t wake to a screaming alarm, and am rarely late.
I love your mantra. My husband used to have a similar one – he says “I have so little to do and so much time.” Not sure why he stopped saying it, but I’m going to try yours and his and see what happens.