A decade is a long time

[innerSpaceman]

Yes, it's so quaint to hear of young people who feel a decade is a long time. Hahahahahaha. In less than two more, they'll be watching the decades FLY by.


Of course, my particularly addled mind doesn't really recall 1999 all that well. I think a lot happened in the, for lack of a better term, MillenniO's ... but culturally was a wash. That's not to say that cultural technology was a wash ... there's been amazing progress and touchstones in that arena. But style, fashion, music, and pop culture seems ... admittedly without the benefit of hindsight ... to have no super-discerning qualities such as typically characterized all but the final decade of the 20th Century.

Is the new millennium the age of MEH?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Is the new millennium the age of MEH?

Only for you, babe. As I've said a million times before, ask a teen or 22 year old what's changed in the last decade, and they'll tell you what an amazing, life-changing era it's been.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Yes, it's so quaint to hear of young people who feel a decade is a long time. Hahahahahaha. In less than two more, they'll be watching the decades FLY by.

So true.

For a 10 year old a year lasts 1/10 of his reality.

For a 40 year old a year only takes 1/40.........

For a 60 year old a year only takes 1/60, practically a blink of the eye.

This is why Christmas keeps coming earlier and earlier each year....because our population is an aging one.

This is why when you look in the fridge of someone over 70 there's certain to be at least one food container with a use by date from the last Olympiad.

This is why older drivers go so slow....to them they're flying.

This is why I am not the least bit jealous of those who live into their 100's.....those last couple of decades must have flown by so fast that perception wise they really didn't live much more than a few weeks longer than someone who only made it to 85