Relative vs Absolute

I heard a really interesting piece recently about how we perceive time.

For a 2-year-old, a year is half their life.

When you’re 20, a year is roughly 5% of your lifetime.

Over 50, a year accounts for less than 2% of your life.

It’s one reason we perceive time moving faster as we get older and why all summers were long and hot when we were kids.

I mention this today because it is the date of both my eldest son’s 31st birthday and my 35th wedding anniversary.

As Earth, Wind and Fire so brilliantly predicted a few years earlier:

Our hearts were ringin’
In the key that our souls were singing’
As we danced in the night, remember
How the stars stole the night away, oh, yeah

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