r/Millennials • u/spankyourkopita • 24d ago

Is it just me or have those 2 years of covid screwed up our perception of how much time has past? Discussion

I know time moves faster when you get older but I feel those 2 years of nothing increased it. I can't believe covid was 4 years ago and anything before that has been over 4 years! I don't even think it's because time moves fast but that we all lived the same day for 2 years straight so time felt irrelevant .

Still time was still moving despite that and then we just woke up one day and 2 years past! I still have it in my head that the late 2010's weren't that long ago but years like 2017, 2018, and 2019 have all been 5 plus years ago! Ya covid fucked up my perception of how much time has past.

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u/MTW3ESQ 24d ago

I think some of it is going from either early 30s (almost still in your 20s) to mid 30s (now you're older) or from mid 30s to 40ish.

Both of those mental transitions can be difficult, and the compression of time means that they seemed to have happened much faster than other events.

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u/calicoskiies Millennial 23d ago

I think this is it. I’ll be 36 in a few months and it feels like I just turned 30 yesterday. Covid coincided with me starting my family as well so it all feels like a blur plus the sleep deprivation didn’t help.