"Meanwhile, no catalog of our time-related troubles would be complete without mentioning that alarming phenomenon, familiar to anyone older than about thirty, whereby **time seems to speed up as you age**—steadily accelerating until, to judge from the reports of people in their seventies and eighties, months begin to flash by in what feels like minutes. **It’s hard to imagine a crueler arrangement: not only are our four thousand weeks constantly running out, but the fewer of them we have left, the faster we seem to lose them**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[context]], [[momento-mori]], **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]