Hard to believe it is already the 6th of April. It won’t be long before some bloggers are counting down the days to Christmas, and I still have unused presents from the last one.
It must be an age thing, but this year seems to be flying past faster than any I have ever known. March felt like it only lasted a week, and before I know it, it will be May. I am haunted by the words of my late Mum, who talked often of how her life seemed to slip away, toward the end. When she remarked that she had hardly noticed a year pass by, in 2010, I thought she was exaggerating at the time.
Now I know exactly what she was talking about.
Maybe it is because I don’t have to work, and rarely leave the cosy confines of Beetley and central Norfolk. My days no longer drag waiting for work to finish, or dreading the shift to come the following day. I have an easier life, and a relatively contented one.
But a much quicker one, undoubtedly. 🙂
I am not sure how the first quarter of the year has just vanished,
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My point exactly, Abbi. How did that happen?
Best wishes, Pete. 🙂
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Goodness I agree-I think you may have figured out the mystery, as we may be a healthier amount of busy upon retirement.
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Thanks, Michele. Even as I type this on Monday, the week already seems to be flying by. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Life is so interesting since I’m in retirement that I don’t care much about time. 😉
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I’m very happy to hear that, Kerin. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I asked for a short winter, which we got, and spring is early around this parts for the second year running and planting is going well. Whilst its going fast I’m reassured by Frags photo project as we are only at day 96, not even a third of the way through 🙂
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That third seems to have come round quickly for me. I feel as if it should be more like a fifth. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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enjoy life and don’t sweat over petty things. time flies really Pete, i totally can relate!
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Thanks, Wilma. That’s very sensible. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Time waits for no one and it runs fast, before we know it, another year is gone.
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Exactly right, Arlene. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I find time flies very fast and I feel it’s due to work and other commitments but when I haven’t worked I’m not sure it felt slower so who knows? Does move fast though.
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Thanks, Lloyd. Glad to hear you feel much the same.
Best wishes, Pete.
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It’s usually the activities and jobs that fill up a day and make it fly by. You are retired and your routine is predictable and calm. Still, the days fly by for you.
I, too, find that March was a blink and one week into April seems unfathomable.
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I can remember when years seemed long, and the gap between Christmas and high Summer was vast. And not that long ago, it seems. But we will soon be hearing talk of Autumn, and I am still clearing the leaves that fell in 2018. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete. x
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My Grandmother said time slowed down for her. That hasn’t been my experience of getting older.
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I suspect she was unique in that respect, Robert. Every person over 65 I have ever spoken to always remarked that the years were ‘flying by’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s sure how it feels to me. 🙂
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And mums and aunts want Christmas lists done!
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Once the Easter eggs have gone from the shops, they will be stocking the Christmas cards. 🙂
Cheers, Pete.
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It’s terrifying how fast this year is going. I’m so behind with writing projects and I don’t know what I’ve been doing with my time over the last few months. I’ve a feeling I might be taking a blogging break soon so I can catch up with myself.
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I’m happy to hear it is going too fast for you too, Mary. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m glad to see someone else feeling this way. Time seems to be moving more quickly which makes it difficult to focus.
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I actually find it quite disturbing, Robert. It leaves me feeling as if I have genuinely ‘missed’ weeks out of my life. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I know exactly how that feels, it’s what people who dissociate experience. I’m always shocked when I realize I have three days of unread comments.
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I think it is an age thing….I mean I was just bitching about how damn cold it was and that north wind cutting thru me……that was January……and now it is April……no time to waste….chuq
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No time-wasting indeed my friend. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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So true!
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I thought you might feel the same, GP. You usually do. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Now you should understand why I see so many bad movies. Time stands still.
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That’s ‘Chandler Time’. Pete time is speeding past like an express train! 🙂
By the way, did you mark my quiz homework?
Best wishes, Pete.
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I agree Pete. This year is indeed flying by fast.
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Glad it’s not just me, Kim. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m out of the loop here, as I am always looking forward to stuff and can’t wait for things like parcels to arrive, holidays to come around, work day to end, etc etc. Maybe the cure for the ‘old person feeling time is going by too fast’ is to order lots of things from amazon, but make sure the things are being sent from China. Time will definitely slow right down!!
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Julie gets that Chinese stuff from Amazon. It does take an age! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, I agree that time is flying, and I think one reason is that we are so plugged in that there is a non-stop onslaught of news, information, social media posts, pinterest, instagram and so much more that keep us distracted – and before you know it another day has gone by! My wife just mentioned that she can’t believe it’s April!
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And she is still so young! Mind you, I’m glad I am not alone. 🙂
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Sounds as though your pervading sense of doom or whatever it was is gone Pete. Good.
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Thanks, Edith. Yes, it seems to have disappeared during the night. Only to be replaced by a sense of ‘fleeting time’. 🙂 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I wonder if it doesn’t have to do with anticipation? When we’re younger, we want Time to go faster because we are anxious to reach a certain point in the future. So we clock every minute, every hour, every day, with our mind’s eye focused on what seems like a distant horizon. “Are we there yet?” When we’re older, our future days are fewer, and we don’t really want to reach a certain point in our personal finite continuum. We want Time to s..l..o..w down. It doesn’t, and since the passage of Time is now dreaded rather than anticipated, Time actually seems to fly by much faster.
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Yes, that’s all true, David. Something similar to the article in the link that Sue added to her comment. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I didn’t have time to read it…
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Ouch! 🙂
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I’m right there with you, Pete.
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Glad it’s not just me. Welcome aboard the ‘Life Express’, Jennie. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Indeed! Best to you, Pete.
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My days seem to fly past too, Pete, and I never get done what I had planned.
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It’s more the years than the days for me, Robbie. I almost wrote the date ‘2018’ on a cheque the other day. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Time flies by like I am paralyzed by it.
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That sounds even worse than my ‘fleeting years’, Nailah. 😦
Best wishes, Pete.
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I am just quoting Taylor swift lyrics 😂
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Ah, I didn’t realise that. I know nothing about that young lady. 🙂
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Oh 😊
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The good and bad of retirement. I finalized my health insurance yesterday. In the bundle of paperwork they generously included some mortality tables for me to peruse. Now I feel like a dead woman walking. Yes — the clock is ticking.
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I have already exceeded the allotted time for someone of my background, diet, and lifetime of bad habits. Every day from now on is a bonus! 🙂
Thanks, Maggie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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My late father-in-law used to lament that the days dragged by and the years flew by after he retired.
Warmest regards, Theo
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It seems to get worse every year, Theo.
Perhaps he got it right. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Take a look at this, Pete: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-does-time-fly-as-we-get-older/
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Thanks for the link, Sue. That lack of ‘memorable events’ certainly rings true. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I remember comparing events on a family holiday many years ago with my mother in her later years…we might as well have been on entirely different trips!
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Oh yes, Sue. Perception changes with age, whether we like it or not. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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My uncle always used to say it takes forever to get to 21, then soon you are over the brow of the hill and life speeds up ever faster…
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Your uncle was dead right, Janet. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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