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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

There is also another angle. When you are a toddler, everything you encounter is brand new and exciting, your brain is sucking in new information constantly. There are so many stimulating events that time crawls because you have so many new things to remember. When i was in primary school, school holidays literally lasted an age

As you go through the education system and get your first job, get married, buy a house etc. You continue to have regular stimulation, so time will pass faster than as a kid. Get to 30+ and there is less and less new stimulation so time passes much faster

This basically, we remember time based on the gaps between novel memories. That's why childhood/teens/early 20's feel like they were a much larger span of time than the 20 years that follows.

Sooo... for anyone who was actually following the guidelines, 2020 should feel like it flew by, staring at our 4 walls all year .

On the other hand - it sort of feels like a LOT happened this year. Aussie fires, Covid, Tiger King, BLM, US presidency, more Covid...