I honestly have got these questions from way too many people, and it looks like almost everyone is feeling this sensation that time is speeding up.
But why does time feel like it’s speeding up? Is it just in our mind or is there something else…..?
Well, after some research, I discovered some shocking facts that might interest you and provide you with answers you’ve been looking for.
Three reasons, according to my research, are truly responsible for the way you feel.
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Brain Functioning:
With the time loop and boring routine, your brain has been stuck.
It’s like your brain is forced to do the same things over and over again, so it skips storing the memories of that time because you are not properly optimising your brain capacity.
Your brain deserves sharpening every once in a while.
I recommend to Go for some fun adventure, talk to strangers, call a friend you haven’t talked to in a long time, learn something new, sign up for some fun activity, and try to live happily.
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Post-Pandemic Trauma:
During the Pandemic, we literally lost two years of our lives, and it is still haunting us.
We had things planned, scheduled and lined up. but due to the pandemic, we still couldn’t cop with the time, we never got a chance to spend properly.
Wonder how it’s already 2025 and within few says, it’s gonna be 2026. Can you believe? Me too.
So the pandemic had a greater effect on people’s minds, their psychology and overall functioning. It has left us stranded, confused and depressed, I must say.
We couldn’t get back those years, however, we shall try to spend the rest time with gratitude and happiness and accept the fact that it’s done and never coming back. Whatever we have right now is all that matters and we are truly grateful for that.
This little step towards acceptance is what we need currently to get along with the time.
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Digital World:
Too much screentime, too much stress
Let’s be real, screen time is slowly taking over our lives, harming our productivity and creativity.
We are constantly plunged in, jumping from app to app, message to message, and it’s secretly messing with how we feel time passing.
Here’s something you probably experienced:
when you sit done to focus whether to work or study, within a few minutes you feel an itch to check your phone, and you convince yourself that it’ll be a quick stroll.
Then suddenly, it’s been an hour or maybe more, and you have no idea where time went.
That’s the trap– you lost the time that you didn’t get to feel. So when you look back, your brain has blurred memories of that period.
The truth?
The time itself hasn’t changed,
The Earth isn’t spinning faster,
The 24 hours in a day is there, like always
The Clock hasn’t been revised.
What changed then? The answer is how we live, our routine, our habits, our attention pass.
It is our psychology and not physics that makes time feel like slipping through the fingers. habits that is indirectly affecting and making you feel like time just passing by too fast.
