Do you feel time is passing too fast?

New Zealand
March 31, 2010 5:50pm CST
Well, it feels like it was only few days ago I passed out the University but so many years has passed! Many times in life, when I go back and see something I have done, I feel like it was only sometimes ago... And I was like "how fast the time is running!". I felt the same way when I quit my first job years ago... Do you get this feeling?
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27 responses
• China
1 Apr 10
Hi Vince, Definitely, I get this feeling very much! I am on my first year doing a job but I still feel like I am a student being in university. Sometimes I walk around in the campus, I got the similar feeling just when I was sophomore, but finding the people there and the way they acted, we were different! So I realize that I am no longer a student but a working man who need to work hard for a living! How time flies! yes, it is really and especially when I have something good, someone nice...they all gone without hesitation, left me alone, and only the clock is running cyclicly!
• Malaysia
31 Mar 10
yes, vince, i feel times zooms us by very fast indeed. i have memories as a girl of 2 years old, dragging a coconut and playing with it. the reason there were coconut trees around the house and 1 coconut fell down. so my grandparents allowed me to play with it with the other little boys and girls around. our toys those days were from organic materials like some of them were cherries plucked from cherry tree to learn childs's cooking etc. playing with chickens, ducks and even running away fgrom turkeys and geese. then i remembered going to school in the morning and i had to wear the blue long shirt that my mum sewed for me. the morning in the 1950's were chilly , cold, misty with morning dews everywhere. i wore it over my pinafore school uniform. waited for the bus to come, those days no school bus. rode on the ordinary bus. then to universities, worked,met a good and God fearing man who protected ansd provided for me , married, raised my family and now retired. to me it was like yesterday, a dream.. like a mist, like a shadow. i am now into my sunset years enjoying my retirement with my hubby. God is kind, loving and favours us and our families, far and near. thanks , vince for getting this discussion started. have a pleasant days ahead and many many more to come.
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@linda1959 (110)
• United States
13 Apr 10
Hello,Vince , Yes time go's by so fast. one day your a kid the next your grown and don't know what happen to the time. some times I feel like I am still young , But when I look in the morrow , I see a different person. and it is me LOL . I hope your having a good day. so sorry you didn't win. I was for you all the way. I miss seeing you on T.V. If I was you I would get back at them. Sorry but I have watch WWE for 30 years or more. and I feel like it was just yesterday when I first seen you , that makes me feel old. have a great day.
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@ShelleD (30)
• United States
1 Apr 10
I find that I feel the same way! When I stop to actually think about or remember things it always seemed like it happened yesterday! As I get older this happens more frequently than I would like. The weeks are blending in together and the days seem like they are flying by. Maybe we all need to just take a minute to really stop and smell the roses...
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@tankut78 (119)
• Turkey
1 Apr 10
from an other perspective days too pass very fast, you wake up, go to work turn back, tv or internet then thats all, day ended, tomorrow work again.
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@Minute (1)
• Singapore
1 Apr 10
Yeah.. the clock just never stops ticking. It's like one hour has just passed and then another, and apparently, it seemed so fast. It's midnight here for me yet I still feel like the morning has only just passed. Sadly, we can't stop time. Still, we can make better time.
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@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
1 Apr 10
Yes, I seem to have noticed that also. I feel the same. It seems that it was not long ago that I was still doing my studies, and now here I am working with a family already with a child. Well, time does pass so quickly and more than that, I have also this feeling that as we grow older, time moves faster.
@anneshirley (1516)
• Philippines
1 Apr 10
Sometimes I do....just like now, it seems only yesterday when my beautiful niece came to this world but now, she is two years old already. I can't help but wonder what I've been doing all these years not having a family of my own but then again, I am so busy with my own life and I am a proud self - sufficient female. Sometimes, being too emotional get the better of me.
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• India
1 Apr 10
yes i fill some time .i think our life is enough .
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• United States
1 Apr 10
yeah you are right, feels like I just had my c-section now my baby is already 6 months. feels like you are dreaming then when you wake up pooff!! times pass that quick. I notice this when I turn on my 30's it's like I have to hurry every time.then when your done feels like I just had it.
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@drshav (205)
• Philippines
1 Apr 10
Yes i felt it everyday especially now things are way different. Ive seen all my classmates and friends getting married and having children. Whenever i see them i asked myself does time really goes so fast. Its like years when we just play like small childrens, studying and having crushes but now they have husbands and children. Before i wasnt aware that time really goes so fast, i havent noticed im getting old, i still feel im still young maybe thats the reason i havent been married yet.
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1 Apr 10
Yes. That is correct. Time just goes. It is incredible the things I have done in my life...miss parts of it so much...but many more are on their way. It is a shame the time is not enough for everything I would like to do in life.
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@jprui80 (28)
• Philippines
1 Apr 10
Yes, I felt that when I hit 30. There's just so many things that I want to accomplish, and I feel like I'm running out of time. I wish I'd been more focused when I was in my early 20's.
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• Philippines
1 Apr 10
for me, time is so slow. been bored for these past few days. nothing good happening.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
31 Mar 10
Oh, yes. And the older you get, the faster it goes. Here we are getting ready to plant the early garden things and I'm still recuperating from Christmas! What happened? I remember my first car like it was a couple of days ago, not a half century ago.
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@creationhub (3066)
• Malaysia
1 Apr 10
When I was young, I always want to grow up. Now at fifty, time isn't going to slow down. It is going so fast that I now realized that we already have passed the first quarter of 2010. What have I acheived so far? Well, since time is not going to slow down, I guess we must buck up instead. Make full use of every opportunity that comes our way. Create as much wealth as possible and administer it well.
@dodo19 (47034)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
1 Apr 10
Yes, there seems to be a lot of times, when times seems to just fly right by me. And I just have no idea when time has gone, sometimes. It's kind of funny now. As a kid, there were things that I looked forward to in the future and it seemed like it would never come, but now ... it's really the opposite. Sometimes, I feel that I really do lose time, or a sense of time, anyway.
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@madteaparty (2748)
• Japan
1 Apr 10
I get that same feeling all the time. At the beginning of everything you always think that there's a lot of time in front of you, but reality is that it passes by quicker than we can ever expect. I would like time to pass more slowly, to enjoy it more
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@jinjer168 (1596)
• Philippines
31 Mar 10
Hi there vince! yes i believe that time runs too fast. All the important and not so important days of my life happened as if only yesterday. I used to be a child, a teener and now i am a mother. I can't believe but its happening so fast and i wish i could do much better in everything because time lost will never came back again.
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@bagputza (504)
• Belgium
31 Mar 10
Hello Dear VinceMcMahon , i guess you cann say that time really does fly by , goess with light speed when you have a bussy-bussy man , i cann say that between my my part-time job my soccer practice and newly hobby for three months now , mixed martial arts i get exactly the same impression as you , the only time when time really doesnt goes fast its when i'm my two hours on mylot , i am not online on all days of the week , but i cann say that once i'm on Mylot i take my time to smoke my buzz and start selecting and reading most of the time the great discussion , as manny times they cann help users to make opinions and take decisions on certain goals. So yes generaly time runns like Jaguar , when you yourself is bussy as a Bee :) Have a nice evening my dear friend.
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