My Uncle has died
Reply #33 - May 17, 2015, 03:55 PM
I thought about this in my teens, while I was at a point I was noticing my sense of time was changing. 0-2, 7-9, 11-13, just two years brought about such profound change. We change so fast when we're young. There's such a huge difference between say a 14 year old and a 16 year old. But as we get older those changes lessen. When I hit my late teens I was very aware that birthdays and Christmas' were occurring faster than I'd ever perceived before. The changes I went through from 21-23, 23-25 were nothing compared to what I used to go through during those short years at earlier periods of my life. Ever since my late teens I've been changing to an increasingly lesser degree with every year that goes by. What changed, as far as I can tell, was my sense of time. The older we get, the quicker times goes. The changes in two years you can experience between 14 and 16 can take decades after a certain development point. Perhaps time is the crux of it.
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'