Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 19, 2023

After a few months of 2024, 2023 will seem like fun.

When I was very young, I had a new experience pretty much every time I looked around. Over time, most of the things I experience are enough like something I remember that it isn’t really new. So at age 5, I was experiencing, maybe 1000 new things a year. Now, it takes several years to have that many new experiences… so those several years seem to pass in only one internal year: they go by in a flash…

The speed of time is relevant to which side of the bathroom door you are.

Good one!

As you get older, every year is a smaller and smaller fraction of your total time here. Almost 69, and they just seem to whizz by…

Teaching was a pleasure/pain oleo most days and, depending on the ratio, a year could seem to pass quickly or just drag on in endless gray. Students almost never have a clue as to what makes a teacher smile and, except by accident, they never get a peak into his/her off hours. It is their secret that they hold close.

Time goes faster the more you’ve seen of it.

Time flies when you aren’t paying attention to the clock.And, OK I can’t resist: Times flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

When you’re 5, one year is 20% of your life. At 75 it’s 6.67%.

Youth is wasted on the young, and wisdom is wasted on the old.

Doesn’t Mrs. Olson have a sweet Chevelle SS? Maybe she’s at the dragstrip every weekend.

Time flies when you’re reading funny!

I had the reverse experience. When I was really young, time seemed to pass way more slowly than it does now. Someone once explained it to me in terms of proportionality. When you’re 5, the 6 nice months in the middle of the year represent 10% of your total life experience. And are probably filled with something like 25% of all the novel life experiences you can recall. Now that I’m pushing 80, a comparable half-year stretch amounts to 0.6% of my total experience and about the same amount of new stuff. Without new things to distinguish one day from the next, it all tends to blur together into a single large gray mass.

Caulfield can’t begin to understand how fast the years go for somebody Mrs Olsen’s age

Frazz: Time flies when you’re having fun

Frog: Time’s fun when you’re having flies

It’s better than Fun Flys when you’re doing Time.

Time may fly when you are having fun, but there may be other situations that also cause time to seem to fly.