A child has a mind that runs insanely. An adults mind is a marathon runner. It might not be as fast and instinctive as a child (read child brain) but it gains more stamina. None of us is new to this, but the issues that accompany this fact are interesting. One of them is our mind clock.
Mind-clock, as I prefer calling it, is a ticking machine right inside your brain that keeps counting moments, with some reliable precision, differing from person to person. It is this clock that makes you feel time. The clock that ticks a long boring hour in a tenth minute lecture before the lunch, and that runs like a Ferrari when you're on the bed or in the ground. As we grow up, especially in schedules and recurring time-tables, run timed goals and life's races, we learn to pace it right. It is a consistent habit you would find with most successful people. The subtle truth hides here.
"Minutes tick longer and days tick shorter."
Consider a simple day. You wake up, get ready to your school / college /office, go out and work all day and return home. Needless to say, the clock races around when you gave a variety of things to do, a large different set of instructions for your brain to handle, and relatively slower at works that repeat themselves in a day. These presumptions considered, we complain of long work days as our brain tunes itself to the recurring pattern. We get tired by the end of such days, postponing most of our activities to weekends. Results being, a large variety of activity towards the weekends which snap off in a blink. The weekdays become longer due to recurring processes and weekends shorten due to variety.
"Minutes tick longer and days tick shorter."
Consider a simple day. You wake up, get ready to your school / college /office, go out and work all day and return home. Needless to say, the clock races around when you gave a variety of things to do, a large different set of instructions for your brain to handle, and relatively slower at works that repeat themselves in a day. These presumptions considered, we complain of long work days as our brain tunes itself to the recurring pattern. We get tired by the end of such days, postponing most of our activities to weekends. Results being, a large variety of activity towards the weekends which snap off in a blink. The weekdays become longer due to recurring processes and weekends shorten due to variety.
Let us consider this over time. Remember your childhood? Being a child, writing the same date at least ten times over a day, each time in a different mood and thought process, makes us feel the years had been longer. As we grow, in a focus oriented world, we decrease the number of thoughts and increase their depth. As we store these thoughts down a memory lane, you'll be surprised to notice that you remember a twenty x to have been shorter than a Y teen than a z year child. The years run faster.
In reality, you can witness this happen in a child. Pick a baby 4 or 6 year old and observe. The child who's been sobbing about a toy train 20 seconds ago is merrier playing with mud and cake. A grown up? No. The grown up buddy rather sulks around a thought over and over, giving lesser time for others, leaving the mind bored. If boredom and monotone are your complaints with growing older, then, "this" is your problem.
Summing the theory up,
1. Mind clock works based on your moments, it ticks faster when your mind has more areas to explore, and bores during iterations.
2. Mind-clock accelerates with age because of the depth of thought and reduced numbers.
3. The problem with most of us is that we reiterate a lot during the weekdays and mourning shorter weekends. The solution being, doing varieties on weekdays, and lazily sleeping on the weekend. This will reduce the illusive effect of shortened weekends.
In reality, you can witness this happen in a child. Pick a baby 4 or 6 year old and observe. The child who's been sobbing about a toy train 20 seconds ago is merrier playing with mud and cake. A grown up? No. The grown up buddy rather sulks around a thought over and over, giving lesser time for others, leaving the mind bored. If boredom and monotone are your complaints with growing older, then, "this" is your problem.
Summing the theory up,
1. Mind clock works based on your moments, it ticks faster when your mind has more areas to explore, and bores during iterations.
2. Mind-clock accelerates with age because of the depth of thought and reduced numbers.
3. The problem with most of us is that we reiterate a lot during the weekdays and mourning shorter weekends. The solution being, doing varieties on weekdays, and lazily sleeping on the weekend. This will reduce the illusive effect of shortened weekends.